{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-additional-functions-amendment-order-1996/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-additional-functions-amendment-order-1996/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/959",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Officers (Additional Functions) (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-additional-functions-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Single room rents determinations",
  "text": "After paragraph 4 in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (determinations) insert—\n“Single room rents\n4A (1) The rent officer shall determine a single room rent in accordance with the following formula—\nS=H+L2 where—\nS is the single room rent;\nH is the highest rent, in the rent officer’s opinion,—\n(a) which a landlord might reasonably have been expected to obtain, at the relevant time, for an assured 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 rent officer’s opinion, —\n(a) which a landlord might reasonably have been expected to obtain, at the relevant time, for an assured 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 assured tenancy is in the same locality as the dwelling and is in a reasonable state of repair;\n(b) that, under the assured tenancy, the tenant—\n(i) has the exclusive use of one bedroom;\n(ii) does not have the use of any other bedroom or room suitable for living in;\n(iii) shares the use of a toilet; and\n(iv) shares a kitchen or has no use of a kitchen; and\n(c) that the rent does not include any payment for board and attendance.\n(3) Sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) 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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/959/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:20.749123+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."
}