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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/houses-in-multiple-occupation-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Houses in Multiple Occupation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/houses-in-multiple-occupation-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A Part 4 notice (other than an emergency hazard notice) may provide for the operation of the notice to be suspended until a time, or the occurrence of an event, specified in the notice.\n(2) The time specified under sub-paragraph (1) may, in particular, be the time when a person of a particular description begins, or ceases, to occupy any accommodation.\n(3) The council may, for the purposes of this paragraph, accept from a person on whom the notice is served a written undertaking to take, or to refrain from taking, any action specified in the undertaking.\n(4) If the council does so, the event specified under sub-paragraph (1) may, in particular, be a notified breach of that undertaking.\n(5) In sub-paragraph (4) a “notified breach” is an act or omission by the person—\n(a) which the council considers to be a breach of the undertaking, and\n(b) which is notified to the person in accordance with the terms of the undertaking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 4 in operation at 1.4.2019 by S.R. 2019/39, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/22/schedule/5/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:51.454871+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}