{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-information-sharing-in-relation-to-welfare-services-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-information-sharing-in-relation-to-welfare-services-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/56",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Services etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-information-sharing-in-relation-to-welfare-services-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Using purposes",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to relevant information held by a qualifying person for any purpose listed in regulation 13.\n(2) The purposes set out in paragraph (3) are prescribed—\n(a) under Article 121(3)(a) of the 2015 Order as a purpose for which the information may be used by that qualifying person; and\n(b) under Article 121(3)(b) of the 2015 Order as a purpose 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—\n(a) making a rate relief scheme;\n(b) determining a person's entitlement or continued entitlement to a reduction in rates under a rate relief scheme.\n(c) preventing, detecting, securing evidence of, or prosecuting the commission of, an offence relating to a reduction in rates;\n(d) any proceedings in connection with a reduction in rates made under Article 30A of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977;\n(e) the purposes referred to in regulation 6(1)(a)(i) or (iii), (b) or (c).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/56/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:58:24.366282+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."
}