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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1983/1118",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1983",
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  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "[\n1)] A tenancy is not a secure tenancy if—\n(a) it is a tenancy granted for a term certain exceeding 21 years, whether or not it is (or may become) terminable before the end of that term by notice given by the tenant or by re-entry or forfeiture; or\n(b) it is a tenancy created by an equity-sharing lease within the meaning of Article 31 (6) of the principal Order.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph a tenancy granted in pursuance of Chapter 1 of Part II of this Order is a long lease notwithstanding that it is granted for a term not exceeding 21 years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2003 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1986 NI 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/19",
      "affecting_title": "Immigration Act 2016"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1983/1118/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}