7.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the maximum rent payable to a registered provider by a tenant of social housing to whom section 23 of the Act does not apply because of the exception in regulation 3(1)(i), is the social rent rate.
(2) This regulation does not apply if an absolute exception applies.
(3) In the case of supported housing which is not specialised supported housing, the reference in paragraph (1) to the social rent rate should be read as a reference to that rate as modified by regulation 10.