{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1984",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Insufficient information",
  "text": "If a rent officer needs further information in order to make a determination under article 3(1), a redetermination under article 4, a board and attendance determination under article 4C or a board and attendance redetermination under article 4D, he shall serve notice on the local authority requesting that information where the information supplied under regulation 114A of the Housing Benefit Regulations or regulation 95A of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations was incomplete or incorrect, he shall serve notice on the local authority requesting it to supply the further information required under regulation 114A or regulation 95A, as the case may be, or to confirm whether the information already supplied is correct and, if it is not, to supply the correct information ....",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 5 substituted (24.9.2003) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance) Amendment Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2398), arts. 1(1), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 5 substituted (7.4.2008) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2871), arts. 1(4), 7(3) (with arts. 2, 7(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 5 omitted (E.W.) (3.4.2000) by virtue of The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/1), arts. 1(1), 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1984/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:21.166385+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."
}