RENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978

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RENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 60



60.(1) The Department shall take such steps as appear to it best designed to
secure that the provisions of an allowance scheme come to the notice of any
persons who may be entitled to an allowance under the scheme.

(2) The Department shall furnish the statutory particulars of an allowance
scheme on request to a tenant of a dwelling or a landlord of such a tenant,
free of charge and in a form convenient to be kept in a rent book.

(3) A landlord who grants a new tenancy of a dwelling to a private tenant on
or after the commencement of this Order shall take all reasonable steps to
furnish to the tenant in writing and in a convenient form the statutory
particulars of the allowance scheme in force when the tenancy takes effect.

(4) Any landlord who refuses or wilfully neglects to perform a duty imposed on
him by paragraph (3) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not
exceeding #400.

(5) In this Article "statutory particulars", in relation to an allowance
scheme, means such particulars as the Department may specify in regulations of
the following matters, namely

(a)the procedure for making an application for an allowance;

(b)the information to be included in such an application;

(c)the circumstances in which an allowance is likely to be granted;

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RENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 60