Regulation 2 Persons required to provide informationI1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

The following are prescribed as descriptions of persons for the purpose of section 109B(2)(ia) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (power of authorised officers to require information)—

(a)

a person who provides relevant childcare;

(b)

a person to whom a person in receipt of universal credit (“C”) is liable to make rent payments in respect of accommodation which C occupies, or purports to occupy, as their home where C’s award of universal credit includes an amount in respect of such payments;

(c)

a rent officer to the extent that the information required relates to the rent officer’s functions under section 122 of the Housing Act 1996^f1;

(d)

a local authority which administers a council tax reduction scheme to the extent that the information required relates to such a scheme.

(2)

In this regulation—

(a)

“UC Regulations” means the Universal Credit Regulations 2013^f2;

(b)

“council tax reduction scheme”—

(i)

in England and Wales, has the meaning given in section 13A(9) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992^f3 and includes a default scheme within the meaning of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1A (or in Wales paragraph 6(1)(e) of Schedule 1B) to that Act; and

(ii)

in Scotland, means a means-tested reduction to an individual’s council tax liability in accordance with the F1Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2021 or the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012^f4;

(c)

“relevant childcare” has the meaning given in regulation 35 of the UC Regulations;

(d)

“rent payments” has the meaning given in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the UC Regulations;

(e)

“universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 2(2)(b)(ii) substituted (1.4.2022) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/249), reg. 1, sch. 5 para. 7(2) (with regs. 2, 3, 97-101)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 2 in force at 1.10.2013, see reg. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: 1996 c.52.
f2: S.I.2013/376.
f3: 1992 c.14. Section 13A is substituted by section 10 of, and Schedules 1A and 1B are inserted by Schedule 4 to, the Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c.17).
f4: S.S.I.2012/319.