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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-supply-of-information-regulations-1988/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/662",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-supply-of-information-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Information to be supplied by an authority to the Secretary of State",
  "text": "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—\n(a) that a claim for housing benefit has been disallowed;\n(b) the date on which a person’s entitlement to housing benefit ended or is to end;\n(c) any further information required for the purpose of—\n(i) the calculation and recovery of overpayments of benefits paid under the benefit Acts,\n(ii) the investigation and prevention of offences relating to benefits under the benefit Acts,\n(iii) any proceedings for offences relating to benefits under the benefit Acts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "reg. 3 renumbered as reg. 3(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1925",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1925",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "comma in reg. 3(1)(c)(iii) substituted for full stop",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1925",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1925",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Supply of Information) and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2137",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/626",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulation 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/1890",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Regulations 1988"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/662/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:15.974914+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."
}