{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exceptions",
  "text": "(1) No determination, redetermination, board and attendance determination or board and attendance redetermination shall be made if the application for it is withdrawn.\n(2) No determination shall be made under paragraph 3, 4 or 5 of Part I of Schedule 1 if the tenancy is of residential accommodation, within the meaning of regulation 9(4) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 9(4) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (registered homes etc.) , or in a hostel.\n(3) No determination shall be made under paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule 1 unless the local authority states in the application that the claimant is, or may be, a young individual (which has the same meaning as in the Housing Benefit Regulations and the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations).\n(4) If the rent officer becomes aware that an application is not one which gives rise to a duty to make a determination, redetermination, board and attendance determination or a board and attendance redetermination, the rent officer shall give the local authority notice to that effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(1) substituted (24.9.2003) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance) Amendment Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2398), arts. 1(1), 2(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(2) substituted (7.4.2008) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2871), arts. 1(4), 10(5)(a) (with art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(2) substituted (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 11(8)(a) (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(3) substituted (7.4.2008) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2871), arts. 1(4), 10(5)(b) (with art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(3) substituted (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 11(8)(b) (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(4) substituted (24.9.2003) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance) Amendment Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2398), arts. 1(1), 2(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraph (3) was added by S.I. 1990/2564."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1984/article/6",
    "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."
}