The Rent Officers (Additional Functions) (Amendment) Order 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) Order 1995 which conferred functions on rent officers, in connection with housing benefit and rent allowance subsidy, and requires them to make determinations and redeterminations in respect of tenancies and licences of dwellings.

Article 2(a) amends the circumstances in which a single room rent determination may be made under paragraph 4A of Part I of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Order to cases where the housing benefit claimant is, or may be, a young individual or single claimant as defined in that provision. Before this amendment, such determinations could only be made in relation to claimants who were young individuals. The amendment made by article 2(b) applies article 3(2) of the 1995 Order (no determination before additional information received) to redeterminations.

The amendment made by article 2(a) comes into force on 6th October 1997 and the amendment made by article 2(b) comes into force on 14th April 1997. Article 3 stops an amendment applying to applications made before the date that amendment comes into force.