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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1997/schedule-6/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1997/schedule-6/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1004",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Restriction on unreasonable rents or on rent increases",
  "text": "This paragraph applies where an authority has been unable to treat a person’s eligible rent as reduced by reason of regulation 11(3), (3A), (4) or 12(2) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (restrictions on unreasonable rents or on rent increases) as in force on 1st January 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph (3A) was added by regulation 2(c) of S.I. 1989/566."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (2) was added by regulation 3(b) of S.I. 1989/566."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 11 was revoked and replaced by regulation 5 of S.I. 1995/1644 and amended by S.I. 1995/2868 from 2nd January 1996, but the earlier regulation continues in force for certain claimants by regulation 10 of S.I. 1995/1644."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1004/schedule/6/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:10:16.506195+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}