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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-act-2002/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-act-2002/schedule-5/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/21",
  "legislation_title": "Tax Credits Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Powers to use information",
  "text": "Information which is held for the purposes of any functions relating to tax credits, child benefit or guardian’s allowance—\n(a) by the Board, or\n(b) by a person providing services to the Board, in connection with the provision of those services,\nmay be used, or supplied to any person providing services to the Board, for the purposes of, or for any purposes connected with, the exercise of any such functions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 wholly in force at 1.4.2003; Sch. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 61; Sch. 5 in force for certain purposes at 1.8.2002 by S.I. 2002/1727, art. 2; Sch. 5 in force for certain further purposes at 26.2.2003 and otherwise in force at 1.4.2003 by S.I. 2003/392, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2023/48",
      "affecting_title": "Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Act 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:30.203543+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."
}