# The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997, Paragraph 1

Extent: E+W+S

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)—
(za) a member of a couple who cannot share a bedroom;
(zb) a member of a couple who can share a bedroom;
(a) a couple ...;
(b) a person who is not a child;
(ba) a child who cannot share a bedroom;
(c) two children of the same sex;
(d) two children who are less than ten years old;
(e) a child.
but 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1984/schedule/2/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-1
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