{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Single room rents",
  "text": "(1) The Executive shall decide a single room rent in accordance with the following formula—\nS= H+L 2 where—\nS is the single room rent;\nH is the highest rent, in the Executive’s opinion—\n(a) which a landlord might reasonably have been expected to obtain, at the relevant time, for an uncontrolled tenancy of a dwelling which meets the criteria in sub-paragraph (2); and\n(b) which is not an exceptionally high rent; and\nL is the lowest rent, in the Executive’s opinion—\n(a) which a landlord might reasonably have been expected to obtain, at the relevant time, for an uncontrolled tenancy of a dwelling which meets the criteria in sub-paragraph (2); and\n(b) which is not an exceptionally low rent.\n(2) The criteria are—\n(a) that the dwelling under the uncontrolled tenancy is in the same locality as the dwelling and is in a reasonable state of repair;\n(b) that, under the uncontrolled tenancy, the tenant—\n(i) has the exclusive use of one bedroom;\n(ii) does not have the use of any other bedroom;\n(iii) shares the use of a room suitable for living in;\n(iv) shares the use of a toilet and bathroom, and\n(v) shares the use of a kitchen and does not have the exclusive use of facilities for cooking food; and\n(c) that the rent does not include any payment for board and attendance.\n(3) Sub-paragraphs (3) and (5) of paragraph 4 apply when ascertaining H and L under this paragraph as if the reference in those sub-paragraphs to H and L were to H and L under this paragraph.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in operation at 20.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:14.194536+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."
}