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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/schedule-11/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Use of intermediaries",
  "text": "The relevant authority may use intermediaries in connection with—\n(a) the delivery of any claim, certificate, notice, information or evidence by means of an electronic communication; and\n(b) the authentication or security of anything transmitted by such means,\nand may require other persons to use intermediaries in connection with those matters.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 inserted (20.12.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Electronic Communications) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2968), arts. 1, 2(5), Sch."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/213/schedule/11/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:43.605354+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."
}