Explanatory note

These Regulations define a “prescribed benefit” for the purposes of paragraph 9C of Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003.

Paragraphs 9A to 9C of Schedule 5 to the Courts Act 2003, which were inserted by section 41 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, permit the Secretary of State, in response to an information request from a designated officer in a magistrates’ court, to disclose details of, among other things, whether a person is in receipt of a prescribed benefit, in order to assist a court in deciding whether to make an application for benefit deductions.