{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-amendment-order-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2459",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-amendment-order-2009",
  "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 (S.I. 1997/1984) and the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1995).\nIn each case paragraph 2 of Schedule 3B sets out how a rent officer should determine a local housing allowance for each category of dwelling identified in paragraph 1. This process involves drawing up a list of rents, payable at the date of the determination, for dwellings within a broad rental market area. This Order inserts a new sub-paragraph (5A). This will allow the rent officer, if not satisfied that the list of rents for a particular category would contain sufficient rents to enable a representative local housing allowance to be determined, to add to the list rents for dwellings in the same category located in other areas in which a comparable market exists.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2459/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:05:53.526337+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."
}