{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-amendment-no-2-order-2013/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2827",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-amendment-no-2-order-2013",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) Order 1997",
  "text": "(1) The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) Order 1997 is amended as follows.\n(2) In Schedule 2 (size criteria)—\n(a) in paragraph 1—\n(i) after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(ba) a child who cannot share a bedroom;”;\n(ii) after paragraph (e) add—\n“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.”;\n(b) for paragraph 3 substitute—\n“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.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1995."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2827/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:35:37.119911+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}