{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-book-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-book-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/192",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Book Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-book-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Rent Book Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st June 2004.\n(2) In these Regulations –\n“the Order” means the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;\n“protected shorthold tenancy” shall be construed in accordance with Article 92 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1983;\n“uncontrolled tenancy” means a tenancy which is a private tenancy but which is neither a regulated tenancy nor a restricted tenancy;\n“rent book” means a rent book provided in pursuance of Article 38(1) of the Order, and which is a written record of rent and other payments made in respect of a tenancy and a written statement of the main terms of the tenancy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/1118 (N.I. 115)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/192/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:57:50.973347+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."
}