{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-information-regulations-2008/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-information-regulations-2008/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2551",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Information Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-information-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Disclosure of information to a court or tribunal",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may disclose any information held for the purposes of the 1991 Act to—\n(a) a court;\n(b) any tribunal or other body or person mentioned in the 1991 Act;\n(c) a person with a right of appeal under the 1991 Act to the First-tier Tribunal,\nwhere such disclosure is made for the purposes of any proceedings before any of those bodies relating to the 1991 Act, the benefit Acts, the Jobseekers Act 1995 or Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 .\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation “proceedings” includes the determination of an application referred to the First-tier Tribunal under section 28D(1)(b) of the 1991 Act.\n(3) The Secretary of State may disclose information held for the purposes of the 1991 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": "Words in reg. 12(1) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 116(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(1)(c) substituted (3.11.2008) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 346"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(2) substituted (3.11.2008) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 346"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(3) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 116(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1995 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "2007 c. 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2551/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:24:11.090952+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."
}