{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-persons-required-to-provide-information-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-persons-required-to-provide-information-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1510",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Persons Required to Provide Information) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-persons-required-to-provide-information-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Persons required to provide information",
  "text": "(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)—\n(a) a person who provides relevant childcare;\n(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;\n(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;\n(d) a local authority which administers a council tax reduction scheme to the extent that the information required relates to such a scheme.\n(2) In this regulation—\n(a) “UC Regulations” means the Universal Credit Regulations 2013;\n(b) “council tax reduction scheme”—\n(i) in England and Wales, has the meaning given in section 13A(9) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 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\n(ii) in Scotland, means a means-tested reduction to an individual’s council tax liability in accordance with the Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2021 or the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012;\n(c) “relevant childcare” has the meaning given in regulation 35 of the UC Regulations;\n(d) “rent payments” has the meaning given in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the UC Regulations;\n(e) “universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.10.2013, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.52."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I.2013/376."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.S.I.2012/319."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1510/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:50:27.650446+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."
}