{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-information-regulations-1999/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-information-regulations-1999/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3108",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-information-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Partners of claimants",
  "text": "(1) The social security information specified in paragraph (4) may be supplied by a relevant authority to the partner of a claimant for a qualifying benefit where one or more of the qualifying benefits has been payable to the claimant for at least six months.\n(2) The qualifying benefits are—\n(a) a jobseeker’s allowance;\n(b) income support;\n(c) incapacity benefit;\n(d) severe disablement allowance ;\n(e) carer’s allowance.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The information which may be supplied is—\n(a) that a qualifying benefit is or has been payable to the claimant;\n(b) the period for which the qualifying benefit has been payable.\n(5) In this regulation, “partner” means one member of a couple of which the claimant is also a member , and “couple” has the same meaning as in regulation 1(3) of the Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 1996.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(1) substituted (23.4.2001) by The Social Security (Claims and Information and Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) Amendment Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1189), regs. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 17(2)(e) inserted (23.4.2001) by The Social Security (Claims and Information and Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) Amendment Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1189), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(2)(e) substituted (1.4.2003) by The Social Security Amendment (Carer's Allowance) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2497), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2 paras. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 17(3) omitted (23.4.2001) by virtue of The Social Security (Claims and Information and Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) Amendment Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1189), regs. 1, 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 17(5) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 31(a) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(5) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 31(b) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(5) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 31(c) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3108/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:12.448080+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."
}