# The Rent Officers (Additional Functions) (Amendment) Order 1996, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) Order 1995 which conferred functions on rent officers, in connection with housing benefit and rent allowance subsidy, and requires them to make determinations and redeterminations in respect of tenancies and licences of dwellings.
Articles 3 and 4 add a requirement for rent officers to make a single room rent determination where a local authority, when applying for a determination, states that the housing benefit claimant is or may be a young individual. Article 6 specifies the notice which the rent officer is to give to the local authority where the rent under a single room rent determination is equal to or more than the rent under the claimant’s tenancy or licence. Article 5 makes a correction.
Article 7 stops the amendments applying to applications for a determination made before the Order comes into force.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/959/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-additional-functions-amendment-order-1996/note
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