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
6 Exceptions
7 Special cases
7AErrors
8 Amendment to 1995 Order
9 Revocations
10 Application
SCHEDULE 1
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
1 Houseboats
2 Mobile homes
3 Rental purchase agreements
1997 No. 1984
HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
Articles 1, 8 and 10(1)
Remainder

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—