{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legal-aid-information-about-financial-resources-regulations-2013/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legal-aid-information-about-financial-resources-regulations-2013/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111533307",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Information about Financial Resources) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legal-aid-information-about-financial-resources-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Prescribed benefits",
  "text": "For the purpose of an information request made by the relevant authority to a relevant Northern Ireland Department for the disclosure of a relevant individual’s benefit status under section 22(3)(e) of the Act, the following benefits are prescribed benefits—\n(a) the benefits listed in the Schedule;\n(b) child benefit under section 137 of the 1992 (Northern Ireland) Act;\n(c) child tax credit under Part 1 of the 2002 Act;\n(d) working tax credit under Part 1 of the 2002 Act; and\n(e) statutory sick pay under Part 12 of the 1992 (Northern Ireland) Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 137 was amended by section 2 of the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c. 6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 8 and 9 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21), which provide for child tax credits, are in force for specified purposes only. Part 1 of the Tax Credits Act 2002, which includes these sections, is to be repealed by Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5) at a date to be appointed."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Sections 10 to 12 of the Tax Credits Act 2002, which provide for working tax credits, are in force for specified purposes only. Part 1 of the Tax Credits Act 2002, which includes these sections, is to be repealed by Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 at a date to be appointed."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111533307/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:50:38.980126+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."
}