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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-3B/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-3B/paragraph-4.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/3B/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Broad rental market area",
  "text": "In this Schedule “broad rental market area” means an area within which a person could reasonably be expected to live having regard to facilities and services for the purposes of health, education, recreation, personal banking and shopping, taking account of the distance of travel, by public and private transport, to and from those facilities and services.",
  "extent": null,
  "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": "Sch. 3B para. 004 and 5 substituted (5.1.2009) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment (No.2) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/3156) , arts. 1 , 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "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/4",
    "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."
}