Regulation 3 Information to be supplied by an authority to the Secretary of State

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 3(1) reg. 3 renumbered as reg. 3(1) by Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) 1994 reg. 2(4)(a)
reg. 3(1)(c)(i) words substituted by Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) 1994 reg. 2(4)(b)(i)
reg. 3(1)(c)(ii) words substituted by Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) 1994 reg. 2(4)(b)(ii)
reg. 3(1)(c)(iii) comma in reg. 3(1)(c)(iii) substituted for full stop by Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) 1994 reg. 2(4)(b)(iii)
reg. 3(1)(c) words added by Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) 1994 reg. 2(4)(b)(iv)
reg. 3(2) added by Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) 1994 reg. 2(4)(c)
reg. 3(3) added by Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit 1994 reg. 14(3)
reg. 3(1)(d) inserted by Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Regulation 1995 reg. 10(3)
reg. 3 applied by Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) 1988

For the purposes of section 31(2) of the Act (information which shall be supplied by an authority where required by the Secretary of State in connection with any of his functions under the benefit Acts), the information prescribed by this regulation is—

(a)

that a claim for housing benefit has been disallowed;

(b)

the date on which a person’s entitlement to housing benefit ended or is to end;

(c)

any further information required for the purpose of—

(i)

the calculation and recovery of overpayments of benefits paid under the benefit Acts,

(ii)

the investigation and prevention of offences relating to benefits under the benefit Acts,

(iii)

any proceedings for offences relating to benefits under the benefit Acts.