{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Special cases",
  "text": "(1) This Order shall apply as specified in Schedule 4 in relation to—\n(a) mooring charges payable for a houseboat;\n(b) payments in respect of the site on which a caravan or mobile home stands; or\n(c) payments under a rental purchase agreement.\n(2) Terms used in paragraph (1) have the same meaning in this article and in Schedule 4 as they have in regulation 12(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 12(1) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (rents) .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 7 substituted (7.4.2008) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2871), arts. 1(4), 10(6) (with art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 7(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(9) (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 7(3)(4) 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), 7 (with art. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Amended by S.I. 1988/1971."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1984/article/7",
    "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."
}