Article 2 Amendment to the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997

(1)

The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997^f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In Schedule 2 (size criteria)^f2—

(a)

in paragraph 1—

(i)

after paragraph (b) insert—

“(ba)
a child who cannot share a bedroom;”;

(ii)

after paragraph (e) add—

“but the claimant is only entitled to a bedroom in respect of a child who cannot share a bedroom if there is a bedroom in the dwelling occupied as the home that is additional to those to which the claimant would be entitled if the child were able to share a bedroom.”;

(b)

for paragraph 3 substitute—

“3.

In this Schedule “child who cannot share a bedroom” and “qualifying parent or carer” have the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I.1997/1984.
f2: Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by S.I. 2010/2836 and amended by S.I. 2013/666. Paragraph 1B was inserted and paragraph 3 added by S.I. 2013/666.