Paragraph 7 Housing associations etc.

Where the landlord is a housing association or a charity, the rent officer shall assume that the landlord is not such a body.

The rent officer shall not take into account the rent under any tenancy where the landlord is a housing association or a charity.

In this paragraph—

• “charity” has the same meaning as in the Charities Act 1993^f1, except that it includes a Scottish charity (which has the same meaning as in section 1(7) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990^f2); and

• “housing association” has the same meaning as in the Housing Associations Act 1985^f3.