{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1983/article-33.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1983/1118",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1983",
  "path": "article/33",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Other disposals",
  "text": "(1) If the tenant under a secure tenancy parts with the possession of the dwelling-house or sublets the whole of it (or sublets part and then the remainder) the tenancy ceases to be a secure tenancy.\n(2) Where, on the death of the tenant, a secure tenancy is vested or otherwise disposed of in the course of the administration of his estate, the tenancy ceases to be a secure tenancy unless—\n(a) the vesting or other disposal is in pursuance of an order made under Article 26 of the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978; or\n(aa) the vesting or other disposal is in pursuance of an order made under Part 2 of Schedule 15, or paragraph 9(2) or (3) of Schedule 17, to the Civil Partnership Act 2004; or\n(b) the vesting or other disposal is to a person in whom the tenancy would or might have vested by virtue of Article 26.\n(3) Where—\n(a) a tenancy ceases to be a secure tenancy by virtue of this Article; or\n(b) in the case of a tenancy which would be a secure tenancy if the condition described in Article 25(3) as the tenant condition were satisfied, the tenant parts with the possession of the dwelling-house or sublets the whole of it (or sublets first part of it and then the remainder),\nthe tenancy cannot become a secure tenancy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2004 c.33"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1983/1118/article/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:19.153943+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."
}