Article 3 Disclosure of information

(1)

Paragraph (3) below applies to information which is held by, or by a person providing services to, the Secretary of State and which relates to income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance.

(2)

Paragraph (3) below also applies to information relating to housing benefit which is held by–

(a)

a local authority administering housing benefit; or

(b)

a person authorised to exercise any function of such an authority relating to housing benefit.

(3)

Information to which this paragraph applies may be supplied to–

(a)

any local authority which intends to apply for a grant under section 91(1) of the 2001 Act; or

(b)

any person authorised to exercise any function of that authority connected with any application for a grant under section 91(1) of the 2001 Act which that authority intends making,

for purposes connected with the intended application for such grant and for the subsequent application of any such grant towards expenditure falling within section 91(1) of the 2001 Act.

(4)

Information which is supplied to a local authority or other person under paragraph (3) above may be supplied by the local authority or person to any other person by whom it is intended that housing support services will be provided, for purposes connected with the intended provision of those services and for any subsequent provision of those services.

(5)

This article permits the disclosure of information only during the period beginning with the date on which this Order comes into force and ending immediately before the operational date.