{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-139E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-139E.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/5",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Administration Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992",
  "path": "section/139E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "139E",
  "heading": "Information about attainment of standards",
  "text": "(1) Where directions have been given to an authority under section 139D(3A) or (3B) above, the Secretary of State may require the authority to supply to him any information which he considers may assist him in deciding—\n(a) whether the authority has attained the standards which it has been directed to attain;\n(aa) whether the authority has taken the action which it has been directed to take; or\n(b) whether the authority is likely to attain those standards or take that action within the time specified in the directions.\n(2) Information shall be supplied under subsection (1) above in such manner and form as the Secretary of State may require.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 138-140G repealed (1.4.2013 in so far as relate to the abolition of council tax benefit) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), s. 150(3), Sch. 14 Pt. 1; S.I. 2013/358, art. 8(c), Sch. 4 (with arts. 9, 10, Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 139E-139H inserted (1.7.1997) by Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47), ss. 9, 25(1); S.I. 1997/1577, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 139E(1) substituted (1.4.2008) by the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), s. 70(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a); S.I. 2008/411, art. 2(3)(c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 139E(1)(aa) inserted (1.4.2008) by the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), s. 70(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(b); S.I. 2008/411, art. 2(3)(c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 139E(1)(b) inserted (1.4.2008) by the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), s. 70(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(c); S.I. 2008/411, art. 2(3)(c)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/5/section/139E",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:26.977425+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."
}