# The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administrative Arrangements) Regulations 2003, Regulation 5: Recording, verification and holding, and forwarding, of claims etc. received by relevant authorities

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) A relevant authority may record and hold—
(a) claims and notifications received by virtue of the any of the principal Regulations; and
(b) information or evidence received by virtue of regulation 3(2).
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a relevant authority or a person providing services to the Board must forward to the Board such a claim or notification, or such information or evidence, as soon as reasonably practicable after being satisfied that it is complete.
(3) Before forwarding a claim or notification in accordance with paragraph (2), a relevant authority must verify whether the details of the claim or notification are consistent with any details held by it which have been provided in connection with a relevant claim for benefit that relates to—
(a) the person by whom the claim for child benefit or guardian’s allowance is or has been made; or
(b) the child or qualifying young person in respect of whom the child benefit or guardian’s allowance is payable.
(4) Before forwarding a claim in accordance with paragraph (2), a relevant authority must verify that—
(a) any national insurance number provided in respect of the person by whom the claim is made exists and has been allocated to that person;
(b) the matters verified in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) accord with—
(i) its own records; or
(ii) in the case of a person providing services to the Secretary of State or the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland, records held by the Secretary of State or that Department.
(5) Before forwarding a claim in accordance with paragraph (2), a relevant authority may verify the existence of any original document provided by the person making the claim which is required to be returned to him.
(6) If a relevant authority cannot locate any national insurance number in respect of a person by whom such a claim is made, it must forward to the Board or a person providing services to the Board the claim.
(7) “National insurance number” means the national insurance number allocated within the meaning of—
(a) regulation 9 of the Social Security (Crediting and Treatment of Contributions, and National Insurance Numbers) Regulations 2001; or
(b) regulation 9 of the Social Security (Crediting and Treatment of Contributions, and National Insurance Numbers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001.
(8) “Claim for benefit” means a claim for—
(a) a benefit in relation to which—
(i) the Secretary of State has functions under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992; or
(ii) the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland has functions under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992; ...
(b) a jobseeker’s allowance under—
(i) the Jobseekers Act 1995; or
(ii) the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 ; or
(c) universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 or Part 2 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/494/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administrative-arrangements-regulations-2003/regulation-5
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