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RENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 73

73.(1) Any document required or authorised by this Order to be served on a
landlord of a dwelling-house shall be deemed to be duly served on him if it is
served

(a)on any agent of the landlord named as such in the rent book; or

(b)on the person who receives the rent of the dwelling-house.

(2) If the tenant under a private tenancy of a dwelling-house serves upon any
such agent or other person as is referred to in paragraph (1) a notice in
writing requiring the agent or other person to disclose to him the full name
and place of abode or place of business of the landlord, that agent or other
person shall forthwith comply with the notice.

(3) If any such agent or other person as is referred to in paragraph (2) fails
or refuses forthwith to comply with a notice served on him under that
paragraph, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding #400, unless he shows to
the satisfaction of the court that he did not know, and could not with
reasonable diligence have ascertained, such of the facts required by the
notice to be disclosed as were not disclosed by him.

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