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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-information-sharing-in-relation-to-welfare-services-etc-regulations-2012/regulation-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Using purposes connected with a troubled families programme",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to relevant information held by a qualifying person which is a local authority in England or a person who falls within regulation 10(1)(b) for the purpose listed in regulation 6(1)(d) or the purpose listed in regulation 6(1)(i).\n(2) The purposes set out in paragraph (3) are prescribed—\n(a) under section 131(3)(a) of the 2012 Act as purposes for which the information may be used by that qualifying person; and\n(b) under section 131(3)(b) of the 2012 Act as purposes for use in relation to which the information may be supplied by that qualifying person to another qualifying person.\n(3) The purposes are any purposes connected with a troubled families programme.\n(4) This regulation permits relevant information to be supplied to another qualifying person only where that other qualifying person is also a local authority in England or a person who falls within regulation 10(1)(b).\n(5) The references in regulations 8(1) and (4) to a local authority in England include references to a person providing services to a local authority in England relating to a troubled families programme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) 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(6)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(1) substituted (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(6)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(1) substituted (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(6)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(3) substituted (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(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(4) 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(6)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 8(5) 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(6)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8 heading substituted (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(6)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1483/regulation/8",
    "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."
}