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The Rent Control Law applies only within Council-of-Ministers-declared control zones

Rule record · last verified 22 September 2026

In force. Start date not confirmed in this record.

Rule

TRNC's Rent Control Law 17/1981 applies its tenant protections only within Council-of-Ministers-declared 'control zones', not nationwide.[1]

Exceptions

  • This rule covers the zone-based applicability mechanism itself, directly read from Article 3(1). It excludes the specific current list of declared zones — this rests only on secondary/journalistic sources suggesting three old city centres and a possible 2008 partial exemption, neither confirmed against the actual Council of Ministers decree, which could not be extracted from an image-based source. Do not treat any specific zone list as settled.

Applies to

Who:
Tenants · Owners

Where this rule comes from

Instrument
Rent Control Law, No. 17/1981, Article 3(1)
Authority
Assembly of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Meclisi), TRNC
Jurisdiction
Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
Basis
Legislation · asserted by us within this jurisdiction
Verification
Primary source verified. We read the primary text ourselves on 22 September 2026.
Legal review
Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer.

History of this rule

  • — Narrowed to exclude the unconfirmed current zone list. (version 1, First published)

Sources for this rule

Numbered in order of first use. Each entry names the kind of source it is and the day we read it.

  1. [1]
    Rent Control Law, No. 17/1981

    Assembly of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Meclisi), TRNC · Legislation and gazettes · original in Turkish · accessed 20 September 2026 · source record

Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/rent-control-law-zone-based-applicability

Identifier rent-control-law-zone-based-applicability · Open data · challenge this rule