{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-order-1998/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-order-1998/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Final condition for the payment of subsidy",
  "text": "Subject to article 9(4), the fourth condition is that an authority shall satisfy the Secretary of State that its claim—\n(a) is true and complete;\n(b) is supported and, if appropriate, supplemented by all the information the Secretary of State requires; and\n(c) fairly represents the expenditure in relation to housing benefit incurred or likely to be incurred, as the case may be, by the authority in the relevant year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 7(c) substituted (31.10.2021) by The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) and Discretionary Housing Payments (Grants) Amendment Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1031), art. 1(1), Sch. 5 para. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/562/article/7",
    "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."
}