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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule “child who cannot share a bedroom, “couple”, “member of a couple who cannot share a bedroom” and “qualifying parent or carer” have the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations and reference to a member of a couple who can share a bedroom is to be construed in accordance with regulation 2(6) of those Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3(as added by art. 2(2)(b) of The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/666)) substituted (4.12.2013) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2827), arts. 1, 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3 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(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3 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(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}