{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-3B/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-3B/paragraph-5.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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Broad rental market area",
  "text": "A broad rental market area must contain—\n(a) residential premises of a variety of types, including such premises held on a variety of tenures; and\n(b) sufficient privately rented residential premises to ensure that, in the rent officer’s opinion, the local housing allowance for the categories of dwelling in the area for which the rent officer is required to determine a local housing allowance is representative of the rents that a landlord might reasonably be expected to obtain in that area.",
  "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/5",
    "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."
}