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

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

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

Article 2 amends article 5 of the principal Order so that a single room determination may be made under paragraph 4A of Schedule 1 to the principal Order in cases where the housing benefit claimant is, or may be, a single claimant. Before this amendment, such determinations could only be made in relation to claimants who were young individuals. This amendment comes into force on 6th October 1997 (article 1).

The amendment made by article 3 comes into force on 14th April 1997 (article 1). Article 3 applies article 3(2) of the principal Order (no determination before additional information received) to redeterminations.

Article 4 provides that the amendments made by this Order do not apply to applications for determinations made before the date of the amendment coming into force.