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Within a declared Rent Control zone, eviction is limited to an exhaustive statutory grounds list

Rule record · last verified 22 September 2026

In force. Start date not confirmed in this record.

Rule

Within a declared Rent Control Law zone, eviction is restricted to an exhaustive list of statutory grounds under Article 7; a court may defer execution of an eviction order for up to one year.[1]

Exceptions

  • Applicability is conditional on the property being within a declared control zone — see rent-control-law-zone-based-applicability for which areas are and are not confirmed as currently declared.
  • What governs eviction OUTSIDE a control zone (presumably ordinary contract law) has not been researched and is not addressed by this Rule.

Applies to

Who:
Tenants · Owners

Where this rule comes from

Instrument
Rent Control Law, No. 17/1981, Article 7(1)(a)-(l)
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

  • — Published following Founder approval. (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-zone-eviction-exhaustive-grounds

Identifier rent-control-zone-eviction-exhaustive-grounds · Open data · challenge this rule