{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-information-from-landlords-and-agents-regulations-1997/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-information-from-landlords-and-agents-regulations-1997/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2436",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Information from Landlords and Agents) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-information-from-landlords-and-agents-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Manner of supply of information",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the relevant information shall be supplied–\n(a) in typewritten or printed form; or\n(b) with the written agreement of the requirer, in electronic or handwritten form,\nwithin a period of 4 weeks commencing on the date on which the notice was sent or given.\n(2) Where–\n(a) within a period of 4 weeks commencing on the date on which the notice was sent or given, the supplier requests that the time for supply of the relevant information be extended; and\n(b) the requirer provides written agreement to that request,\nthe time for supply of the relevant information shall be extended to a period of 8 weeks commencing on the date on which the notice was sent or given.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 substituted (3.2.2000) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/4), regs. 1(1)(a), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/4",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2436/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:50:38.508954+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."
}