{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-tenancies-act-northern-ireland-2022/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-tenancies-act-northern-ireland-2022/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2022/20",
  "legislation_title": "Private Tenancies Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-tenancies-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) on or after 30 June 2011 but before the commencement date, a prescribed term of a private tenancy of a dwelling-house was varied; and\n(b) the dwelling-house is let under that tenancy on the commencement date; and it applies regardless of the date on which the tenancy was granted.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1) “varied” includes varied by omission.\n(3) The landlord under the tenancy must, within 28 days after the commencement date, give to the tenant a notice—\n(a) in the prescribed form, and\n(b) containing the prescribed particulars and other prescribed information relating to the tenancy.\n(4) Where a landlord has, between the varying of the prescribed term and the commencement date, given the tenant a notice that substantially meets the requirements of sub-paragraph (3), the landlord is to be regarded as having complied with that sub-paragraph.\n(5) A tenant must not be required to make a payment in respect of any notice under sub-paragraph (3).\n(6) A landlord who fails to comply with sub-paragraph (3) is guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2 in operation at 28.4.2022 for specified purposes, see s. 14(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2 in operation at 1.4.2023 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2023/20, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/20/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:19.519648+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."
}