{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-tenancies-coronavirus-modifications-act-northern-ireland-2020/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-tenancies-coronavirus-modifications-act-northern-ireland-2020/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2020/2",
  "legislation_title": "Private Tenancies (Coronavirus Modifications) Act (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-tenancies-coronavirus-modifications-act-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Power to alter notice period",
  "text": "(1) The Department may (subject to subsections (2) and (3)) by regulations amend section 1(1)(a)—\n(a) to alter the reference to 12 weeks to—\n(i) a reference to 6 months, or\n(ii) a reference to any other specified period which is less than 6 months, or\n(b) to alter a reference which has been altered by virtue of paragraph (a) or this paragraph.\n(2) A reference which has been altered by virtue of subsection (1)(a) or (b) cannot result in the reference being to a specified period of more than 6 months.\n(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may not alter the reference in section 1(1)(a) to a period of more than 12 weeks in the case of—\n(a) a landlord who needs to live in the dwelling-house, or\n(b) a landlord of a tenancy in which the tenant, or any other person residing in the tenant's household, engages in serious anti-social behaviour after this Act comes into operation.\n(4) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular—\n(a) make provision about the meaning of “needs to live in the dwelling-house” and “engages in serious anti-social behaviour” in subsection (3);\n(b) make provision about the evidence to be provided to show that a case falls within subsection (3)(a) or (b).\n(5) Regulations under subsection (1) are subject to negative resolution.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2020/2/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:43.685792+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."
}