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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-information-sharing-in-relation-to-welfare-services-etc-regulations-2012/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1483",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Services etc.) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-information-sharing-in-relation-to-welfare-services-etc-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Supply of relevant information by the Secretary of State",
  "text": "The purposes prescribed under section 131(1) of the 2012 Act in relation to council tax (purposes for which the Secretary of State or a person providing services to the Secretary of State may supply relevant information to a qualifying person) are—\n(a) making a council tax reduction scheme;\n(b) determining a person’s entitlement or continued entitlement to a reduction under a council tax reduction scheme.\n(c) preventing, detecting, securing evidence of, or prosecuting the commission of, an offence relating to a council tax reduction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4 added (11.2.2013) by The Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Services etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/41), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 12(c) added (1.4.2013) by The Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Services etc.) Amendment and Prescribed Bodies Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/454), regs. 1(2), 3(13)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1483/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:29:23.148354+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."
}