For the purpose of determining a local housing allowance under article 4B79 of and Schedule 3B80 to the 1997 Order (broad rental market area determinations and local housing allowance determinations), for so long as it is necessary to refer to rents payable before the day on which section 239 of the 2016 Act comes into force, the value of rent which, in the rent officer’s opinion, would have been payable for a category of dwelling, specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 3B to the 1997 Order, in Wales let under an assured tenancy, is to be deemed to be the rent that would have been payable in relation to the relevant category of dwelling let under a relevant secure or standard contract.

In this regulation “relevant secure or standard contract” means a secure or standard contract in relation to which the landlord does not meet the landlord condition in section 8081 of the 1985 Act.