The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997

1 Citation and commencement

2 Interpretation

3 Determinations

3ATransitional arrangements for determination of Single Room Rents with effect from 2nd July 2001

4 Redeterminations

4ASubstitute determinations and substitute redeterminations

4BBroad rental market area determinations and local housing allowance determinations

4CBoard and attendance determinations and notifications

4DBoard and attendance redeterminations

4ESubstitute board and attendance determinations and substitute board and attendance redeterminations

5 Insufficient information

7 Special cases

8 Amendment to 1995 Order

PART I DETERMINATIONS

1 Significantly high rents

2 Size and rent

3 Exceptionally high rents

4 Local reference rents

5 Single room rents

6Claim-related rent

PART II ASSUMPTIONS etc.

7Ineligible charges and support charges

8 Housing associations etc.

PART III NOTIFICATIONS OF PART I DETERMINATIONS

9 Notifications

10. . . . . . . . . ....

PART IV INDICATIVE RENT LEVELS

11(1) The rent officer shall determine the indicative rent level...

SCHEDULE 2 SIZE CRITERIA

1One bedroom or room suitable for living in shall be...

1AOne additional bedroom is allowed where on the application for...

1BTwo additional bedrooms are allowed where sub-paragraphs (a) and (b)...

2The number of rooms (excluding any allowed under paragraph 1)...

3In this Schedule “child who cannot share a bedroom ,...

SCHEDULE 3 REDETERMINATIONS

1Schedules 1 and 2 shall apply in relation to a...

2The rent officer making the redetermination shall seek and have...

SCHEDULE 3APART I

1Categories of dwelling

2Formula for local housing allowance for category of dwelling in paragraph 1(1)(a)

3Formula for local housing allowance for other categories of dwelling

4Broad rental market area

SCHEDULE 3BBroad rental market area determinations and local housing allowance determinations

1Categories of dwelling

2Local housing allowance for category of dwelling in paragraph 1

3Anomalous local housing allowances

3AMinimum local housing allowance

4Broad rental market area

5A broad rental market area must contain—

5AThe table referred to in paragraph 2(2A) and (2B) is...

6The table referred to in paragraph 2(2) of this Schedule...

SCHEDULE 4 SPECIAL CASES

3 Rental purchase agreements

1997 No. 1984

HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997

Made12th August 1997

Laid before Parliament12th August 1997

Coming into force

Articles 1, 8 and 10(1)18th August 1997

Remainder3rd September 1997

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 122 of the Housing Act 1996M1, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order—C1

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

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Instrument applied (with effect in accordance with Sch. of the amending S.I.) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance) Amendment Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/236), art. 4, Sch.

Marginal Citations

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