{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "One bedroom or room suitable for living in shall be allowed for each of the following categories of occupier (and each occupier shall come within only the first category for which he is eligible)—\n(za) a member of a couple who cannot share a bedroom;\n(zb) a member of a couple who can share a bedroom;\n(a) a couple ...;\n(b) a person who is not a child;\n(ba) a child who cannot share a bedroom;\n(c) two children of the same sex;\n(d) two children who are less than ten years old;\n(e) a child.\nbut the claimant is only entitled to a bedroom in respect of a child who cannot share a bedroom or a member of a couple who cannot share a bedroom if there is a bedroom in the dwelling occupied as the home that is additional to those to which the claimant would be entitled if the child or the member of the couple were able to share a bedroom.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(za)(zb) inserted (1.4.2017) by The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/213), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(a) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 29 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(a) omitted (1.4.2017) by virtue of The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/213), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1(ba) inserted (4.12.2013) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2827), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 added (4.12.2013) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2827), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 inserted (1.4.2017) by The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/213), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 inserted (1.4.2017) by The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/213), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(c)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1984/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}