{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-59.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/156",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/59",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n“house” includes—\n(a)any building or part of a building which may be, or may be made, suitable for residential purposes; and\n(b)any yard, garden, outhouse and appurtenance belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith;\n“the owner” of a possessed house or of unoccupied premises means the person appearing to the Executive to be the owner thereof;\n“possessed house” means a house of which the Executive has taken possession under Article 60(1); and\n“unoccupied”, in relation to a house or premises, means unoccupied for the purposes of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 1977 NI 28.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "continued in force by 1992 NI 15"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/156/article/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:23.326754+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."
}