{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-order-1998/article-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-order-1998/article-3A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/562",
  "legislation_title": "The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-order-1998",
  "path": "article/3A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Electronic communications",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State, an authority a reporting accountant or an auditor may use an electronic communication in connection with any claim, test, audit or payment of subsidy provided it is made in accordance with the provisions set out in Part 2 of Schedule 6.\n(2) Any reference to an electronic communication in this Order means an electronic communication made in accordance with those provisions.\n(3) Schedule 6 makes further provisions relating to electronic communications.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3A inserted (5.2.2007) by Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Electronic Communications) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/26), arts. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 3A(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/985), arts. 1(1), 5(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in art. 3A(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/985), arts. 1(1), 5(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/562/article/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:39:33.587469+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."
}