2. For paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Finance (Housing) (Consequential Amendments) Order 1993(1) (amendments to the Housing Act 1988(2)) substitute—
“18. After section 41A (amounts attributable to services)(3) insert
41B. A billing authority within the meaning of Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 shall, if so requested in writing by a rent officer or rent assessment committee in connection with his or their functions under any enactment, inform the rent officer or rent assessment committee in writing whether or not a particular dwelling (within the meaning of Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1992) is, or was at any time specified in the request, an exempt dwelling for the purposes of that Part of that Act.”.”
Section 41A was inserted by paragraph 103 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 c. 6.