Paragraph 4 Fitness for human habitationI1

Your landlord is responsible for ensuring your property is safe. If:

• Your property was built before 1945, and

• Your tenancy began on or after 2007, and

• The property is not a prescribed dwelling-house, and

• It has no current certificate of fitness then, you can ask your local council to inspect it to ensure it is fit for human habitation.

Where a rented property does not meet the fitness standard, it is subject to rent control through the Rent Officer for Northern Ireland.