{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-deductions-from-income-support-no-2-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-deductions-from-income-support-no-2-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/545",
  "legislation_title": "Community Charges (Deductions from Income Support) (No. 2) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-deductions-from-income-support-no-2-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application for deductions from income support, universal credit, state pension credit, jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance",
  "text": "(1) Where a debtor is entitled to income support, universal credit, state pension credit, jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance an authority may apply to the Secretary of State by sending an application in respect of the debtor or, where a liability order is made against a couple, in respect of both of the couple, to an appropriate social security office asking the Secretary of State to deduct sums from any amount payable to the debtor, or as the case may be either of the couple by way of income support, universal credit, state pension credit or jobseeker’s allowance.\n(2) An application from an authority shall be in writing and shall contain the following particulars–\n(a) the name and address of the debtor or where the liability order is made against a couple, the names and address of both of them;\n(b) the name and place of the court which made the liability order;\n(c) the date when the liability order was made;\n(d) the total amount of the arrears specified in the liability order;\n(e) the total amount which the authority wishes to have deducted from income support, state pension credit, jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance.\n(3) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that an application from an authority gives insufficient particulars to enable the debtor to be identified he may require the authority to furnish such further particulars as may reasonably be required.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (6.10.2003) by State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019), regs. 1(2)(b), 35(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (29.4.2013) by The Fines, Council Tax and Community Charges (Deductions from Universal Credit and Other Benefits) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/612), regs. 1(2), 15(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2)(e) substituted (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 53(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (6.10.2003) by State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019), regs. 1(2)(b), 35(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) added (7.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2344, reg. 1, 7(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2)(e) inserted (6.10.2003) by State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019), regs. 1(2)(b), 35(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (7.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2344, reg. 1, 7(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 2(4) omitted (29.11.1999) by S.I. 1999/3178, reg. 1, Sch. 11 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Reg. 2(5) omitted (29.11.1999) by S.I. 1999/3178, reg. 2(5), Sch. 11 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 2(6) omitted (29.11.1999), by S.I. 1999/3178, reg. 2(6), Sch. 11 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) heading substituted (7.10.1996), by S.I. 1999/2344, reg. 1, (7)(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 substituted (29.11.1999) by S.I. 1999/3178, para. 5, Sch. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.10.2003) by State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019), regs. 1(2)(b), 35(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (29.4.2013) by The Fines, Council Tax and Community Charges (Deductions from Universal Credit and Other Benefits) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/612), regs. 1(2), 15(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 53(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}