{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/houses-in-multiple-occupation-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-41",
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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": "section/41",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Definition of overcrowding",
  "text": "An HMO is overcrowded for the purposes of this Chapter when the number of persons who sleep in it is such as to contravene—\n(a) the room standard (set out in section 42), or\n(b) the space standard (set out in section 43).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 41 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/section/41",
    "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."
}