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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-and-universal-credit-functions-amendment-order-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1544",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-and-universal-credit-functions-amendment-order-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997, the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) Order 1997 and the Rent Officers (Universal Credit Functions) Order 2013 to make changes to how and when the local housing allowance (“LHA”) is determined.\nArticles 2 to 4, respectively, amend those Orders to provide that from and including 2014, the LHA will be determined on 15th January in each year when it is a Tuesday and on the first Tuesday following the 15th January in each year when it is not. They also amend those Orders to provide that the LHA rate will be the lower of the rent at the 30th percentile of listed rents or the previous year’s LHA increased by one per cent, instead of the lower of the rent at the 30th percentile of listed rents or the previous LHA rate uprated by the Consumer Prices Index inflation published in the previous September.\nAn assessment of the impact of this Order has been made. A copy of the impact assessment is available alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1544/note",
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  "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."
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