{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-universal-credit-functions-order-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/382",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Officers (Universal Credit Functions) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-universal-credit-functions-order-2013",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Categories of accommodation",
  "text": "The categories of accommodation for which a rent officer is required to determine a local housing allowance in accordance with article 4 are—\n(a) accommodation where the tenant has the exclusive use of only one bedroom and where the tenancy provides for the tenant to share the use of one or more of—\n(i) a kitchen;\n(ii) a bathroom;\n(iii) a toilet; or\n(iv) a room suitable for living in;\n(b) accommodation where the tenant has the exclusive use of only one bedroom and exclusive use of a kitchen, a bathroom, a toilet and a room suitable for living in;\n(c) accommodation where the tenant has the use of only two bedrooms;\n(d) accommodation where the tenant has the use of only three bedrooms;\n(e) accommodation where the tenant has the use of only four bedrooms.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 modified (28.1.2021) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1519), arts. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 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), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 modified (31.1.2023) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/6), arts. 1(1), 4"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/382/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:34.350504+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."
}