{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-1A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-1A.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/1A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "One additional bedroom is allowed where on the application for the determination—\n(a) one or more of the following persons is stated as being a person who requires overnight care—\n(i) the tenant;\n(ii) the tenant’s partner;\n(iii) a person (other than the tenant or the tenant’s partner) who occupies the dwelling as their home;\n(iv) a child or young person in respect of whom the tenant or the tenant’s partner is a qualifying parent or carer; or\n(b) the tenant or the tenant’s partner is (or both of them are) stated as being a qualifying parent or carer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1A(as inserted by art.3(4) The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2836),Sch. 2 para. 1B substituted for Sch. 2 para. 1A (1.4.2013) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/666), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1A(a) substituted (1.4.2017) by The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/213), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1984/schedule/2/paragraph/1A",
    "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."
}