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TENANCY AGREEMENT
GENERAL CONDITIONS OF TENANCY - Part 3

PART 3 – MUTUAL TERMS:
GHA and the Tenant mutually agree as follows:

Termination of Tenancy:
1. i) The tenant may bring the tenancy to an end by serving written notice of termination upon GHA, and GHA may, subject to the tenants statutory rights, bring the tenancy to an end by serving written notice upon the tenant.
ii) Any such notice of termination shall take effect upon the Monday at the end of or immediately after the expiration of a period of four weeks beginning immediately after the date of service of such notice.

Remedies for Tenants Breach:
2. If the tenant fails to observe or perform the Tenants Obligations under this Agreement or otherwise, GHA may serve written notice on the tenant, specifying the respects in which there has been such failure and requiring the tenant to remedy that failure within 14 days. If the tenant does not comply with such notice, GHA, its employees and persons authorised by the General Manager shall be entitled to enter the dwelling and execute any works necessary to remedy the failure and GHA shall be entitled to recover from the tenant, as a debt payable on demand, its costs in carrying out and arranging for the carrying out of such works.

Improvements:
4. GHA has the right to carry out any works in or in respect of or in connection with the dwelling (whether works of repair alteration improvement internal or external decoration , or otherwise) and GHA shall not be responsible for the cost of any redecoration work necessitated by such works of repair, alteration, improvement or otherwise and further shall not be responsible for any claim by the tenant for any inconvenience or disruption for any physical damage to the dwelling or items therein arising from or consequential upon the carrying out of such works other than any such claim arising out of the negligence of GHA or its employees.

Term of Tenancy:
4. The Tenancy is a weekly tenancy.

Variation of Rent:
5. GHA may vary the rent and any other charges payable in respect of the dwelling, by giving written notice to the tenant of such variation, at least 4 weeks prior to the coming into effect of such variation.

Rates Increases:
6. Without placing itself under any legal obligation to do so, GHA will give the tenant as much notice as is practicable in relation to any increase of the rates payable in relation to the dwelling.

Other Tenancies:
7. GHA will not be liable to the tenant in respect of any failure on the part of any other tenant of GHA under any other GHA tenancy to perform or observe the tenant’s obligations under that other tenancy nor shall GHA be liable to the tenant for any failure or neglect on its part to enforce its rights under any such other tenancy.

Enforcement:
8. Failure or neglect by GHA to enforce at any time any of the provisions of this Agreement shall not be construed or be deemed to be a waiver of GHA’s rights hereunder nor in any way affect the validity of the whole or any part of this Agreement nor prejudice GHA’s rights to take subsequent action arising out of the breach of any provisions of the Agreement.

Serverability:
9. In the event that any of these provisions shall be held to be invalid unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such provision shall be served from the remaining provisions which shall continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Headings:
10. The headings of the provisions in this Agreement are inserted for convenience or reference only and are not intended to be part of or affect the meaning or interpretation of any of those provisions.

Variation:
11. The provisions of this Agreement represent the entirety of the Agreement between GHA and the tenant and may only be varied or altered in accordance with Article 37 of the Housing (NI) Order 1983 or such statutory provision as may alter or replace it or by the mutual agreement in writing of GHA and the tenant.

Roads and Footpaths:
12. i) this Clause applies to any unadopted public right of way in the ownership of GHA adjoining or neighbouring the dwelling and to which the Public has access.
ii) GHA do not accept liability to the tenant either in his/her capacity as a tenant or as a member of the Public in respect of the state of repair or maintenance of any such Public right of way.

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