The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance Amendments) Order 2015

Amendments to the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) Order 1997

3.—(1) The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) Order 1997(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 3B (broad rental market area determinations and local housing allowance determinations)(2)—

(a) omit paragraph 2(2) and (9);

(b) for paragraph 2(3) substitute—

“(3) For all broad rental market areas the local housing allowance for a category of dwelling is—

(a) the local housing allowance determined for that category of dwelling on 30th January 2015 (or, where the determination is amended under article 7A(4) (errors), the allowance provided for in the amended determination(3)); or

(b) the rent at the 30th percentile determined in accordance with sub-paragraphs (4) to (8), where that rent is lower than the allowance referred to in paragraph (a).”; and

(c) omit paragraph 6.

(1)

S.I. 1997/1995.

(2)

Schedule 3B was inserted by S.I. 2007/2871 and amended by S.I. 2013/2978 and 2014/3126. There are other amendments that are not relevant to this Order.

(3)

Article 7A was inserted by S.I. 2000/3 and amended by S.I. 2003/2398 and 2007/2871.