Regulation 3 Supply of relevant information to registration officers

(1)

For the purposes of section 20B of the Act (information concerning social security) it is prescribed that the Secretary of State may, notwithstanding any duty of confidentiality, supply relevant information (within the meaning of that section) to a registration officer.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (c) of section 20B(2) of the Act (meaning of relevant information) there is prescribed information of the description set out in paragraph (3).

(3)

The information to which paragraph (2) refers is information as to the name, address and date of birth of any person aged 18 or over and any partner aged 18 or over of that person, where that person is awarded income support but has not at the time of the award made a claim at the appropriate social security office–

(a)

for community charge benefits, or

(b)

where the claim for income support is made prior to 1st April 1990, for housing benefit in the form of a community charge rebate^f1.

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Footnotes

f1: See section 28(1)(aa) of the 1986 Act as modified by the Housing Benefit (Social Security Act 1986 Modifications) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1483) (s.145).