{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-scotland-order-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-scotland-order-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1995",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-scotland-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Housing associations etc.",
  "text": "(1) In a case where the local authority states in the application that the landlord is a housing association or a charity, the rent officer shall assume that the landlord is not such a body.\n(2) The rent officer shall not take into account the rent under any tenancy where the landlord is a housing association or where the landlord is a charity and the dwelling is provided by the landlord in the pursuit of its charitable purposes.\n(3) In this paragraph–\n“charity\" has the same meaning as in the Charities Act 1993 , except that it includes a Scottish charity (which has the same meaning as in section 1(7) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 ); and\n“housing association\" has the same meaning as in the Housing Associations Act 1985 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1993 c.10."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1990 c.40."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1985 c.69;see section 1(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1995/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:11.869338+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."
}