# The Social Security (Persons Required to Provide Information) Regulations 2013, Regulation 2: Persons required to provide information

Extent: E+W+S

(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;
(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;
(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 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 Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2021 or the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1510/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-persons-required-to-provide-information-regulations-2013/regulation-2
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