# The Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, Article 56: Tenancies which are protected tenancies


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(1) Article 3 of the Rent Order (protected tenancies) shall be amended as follows.
(2) For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted–
“(1) A tenancy of a dwelling-house is a protected tenancy for the purposes of this Order if–
(a) the Rent Restriction Acts applied to the dwelling-house immediately before the commencement of this Order (1st October 1978), and
(b) the dwelling-house was, immediately after that commencement, let under that tenancy as a separate dwelling.
(1A) A tenancy of a dwelling-house is a protected tenancy for the purposes of this Order if–
(a) paragraph (2) applies to the dwelling-house, and
(b) the dwelling-house was, immediately before the commencement of Article 56 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, let under that tenancy as a separate dwelling.”.
(3) After paragraph (2A) there shall be inserted–
“(2B) A tenancy of a dwelling-house is a protected tenancy for the purposes of this Order if, immediately before the commencement of Article 56 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, that tenancy was a protected tenancy by virtue of Article 5 of this Order.”.
(4) After paragraph (3) there shall be inserted–
“(3A) For the purposes of this Article, a dwelling-house may be a house or part of a house.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/011080032X/article/56 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-private-tenancies-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-56
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