# The Rent Officers (Additional Functions) Order 1989, Article 3: Additional Functions


(1) Where, in connection with housing benefit and rent allowance subsidy, a local authority applies to a rent officer for determinations relating to a tenancy of a dwelling, the rent officer shall (subject to article 5) make the determinations and give notice in accordance with Schedule 1 to this Order.
(2) If a rent officer needs further information in order to make a determination, he shall serve notice on the local authority requesting that information and until he receives it paragraph (1) shall not apply to the making of that determination.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/590/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-additional-functions-order-1989/article-3
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