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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-information-evidence-and-disclosure-regulations-1992-revoked/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1812",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations 1992 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-information-evidence-and-disclosure-regulations-1992-revoked",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Disclosure of information to a court or tribunal",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State ... may disclose any information held by him for the purposes of the Act to—\n(a) a court;\n(b) any tribunal or other body or person mentioned in the Act;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(cc) a person with a right of appeal under the Act to an appeal tribunal,\nwhere such disclosure is made for the purposes of any proceedings before any of those bodies relating to this Act, to the benefit Acts or to the Jobseekers Act 1995.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation “proceedings” includes the determination of an application referred to an appeal tribunal under section 28D(1)(b) of the Act.\n(3) The Secretary of State ... may disclose information held by him for the purposes of the Act to a court in any case where—\n(a) that court has exercised any power it has to make, vary or revive a maintenance order or to vary a maintenance agreement; and\n(b) such disclosure is made for the purposes of any proceedings before that court in relation to that maintenance order or that maintenance agreement or for the purposes of any matters arising out of those proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (27.10.2008) by The Child Support Information Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2551), regs. 1, 15(1) (with reg. 15(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 8(1): Reg. 8 renumbered as reg. 8(1) (2.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2907, reg. 1(1), 63"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) omitted (1.6.1999) by virtue of S.I. 1999/1510, art. 3(1), 11(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (1.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1510, art. 3(1), 11(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 8(1)(c) omitted (29.11.1999) by virtue of S.I. 1999/1510, art. 3(2), 11(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 8(1)(cc) inserted (16.9.2004 for specified purposes) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2415), reg. 1(2)(a)(b)3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (19.1.1998) by S.I. 1998/58, reg. 1(2), 33(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2) added (2.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2907, reg. 1(1), 63"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(2) substituted (1.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1510, art. 3(1), 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 8(3) added (19.1.1998) by S.I. 1998/58, reg. 1(2), 33(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(3) omitted (1.6.1999) by virtue of S.I. 1999/1510, art. 3(1), 11(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(3) substituted (1.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1510, art. 3(1), 11(c)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1812/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:18:30.495743+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}