{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-scotland-order-1997/schedule-3A/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-scotland-order-1997/schedule-3A/paragraph-4.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/3A/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Broad rental market area",
  "text": "In this Schedule “broad rental market area” means an area—\n(a) comprising two or more distinct areas of residential accommodation, each distinct area of residential accommodation adjoining at least one other in the area;\n(b) 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 facilities and services of the same type and similar standard; and\n(c) containing residential premises of a variety of types, and including such premises held on a variety of tenancies.\nPART II\nColumn (1) Local authority\nolumn (2) Date\nArgyll and Bute\n30th May 2005\nEdinburgh\n9th February 2004",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3A inserted (24.9.2003) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance) Amendment Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2398), arts. 1(1), 3(10), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3A omitted (7.4.2008 for specified purposes) by virtue of The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2871), arts. 1(4), 15(8) (with arts. 2, 11, 15(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3A Pt. 2 substituted (13.3.2005) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Local Housing Allowance) Amendment Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/236), arts. 1(2), 5(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1995/schedule/3A/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}