{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-3B/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/3B/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Anomalous local housing allowances",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph 3A, where—\n(a) the rent officer has determined the local housing allowance for each of the categories of dwelling in paragraph 1(1) in accordance with the preceding paragraphs of this Schedule; and\n(b) the local housing allowance for a category of dwelling in paragraph 1(1)(b) to (e) is lower than the local housing allowance for any of the categories of dwelling which precede it,\nthat local housing allowance is to be the same as the highest local housing allowance which precedes it.\n( 2 ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3B inserted (20.3.2008) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2871), arts. 1(3), 4(4) (with art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3B para. 3(1) substituted (31.1.2024) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/11), arts. 1(1), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3B para. 3(1)(b) substituted (18.3.2011) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2836) , arts. 1(2) , 2(3)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3B para. 3(1) substituted (31.1.2024) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/11), arts. 1(1), 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 3B para. 3(2) omitted (18.3.2011) by virtue of The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2836) , arts. 1(2) , 2(3)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 3B modified (28.1.2021) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1519), arts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 3B modified (31.1.2022) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment and Modification) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1380), arts. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 3B modified (31.1.2023) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/6), arts. 1(1), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1984/schedule/3B/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}