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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-amendment-order-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3561",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-amendment-order-2001",
  "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 and the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) Order 1997 (“the Orders”) which confer functions on rent officers in connection with housing benefit and rent allowance subsidy and require them to make determinations in respect of tenancies and licences of dwellings.\nArticles 2 and 3 amend paragraphs 1 to 5 of Schedule 1 to each of the Orders. Articles 2(2) and (3) and 3(2) and (3) replace the term `locality' with `vicinity' for the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2 which relate to significantly high rents and size-related rent. Articles 2(4) and 3(4) replace the term `locality' with `neighbourhood' in paragraph 3 which relates to exceptionally high rents. Articles 2(5) and 3(5) insert a definition of the term `locality' for the purposes of paragraphs 4 and 5 which relate to local reference rents and single room rents.\nThis Order does not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3561/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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