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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-act-2002/schedule-5/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-act-2002/schedule-5/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/21",
  "legislation_title": "Tax Credits Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Board may require—\n(a) an authority administering housing benefit or council tax benefit, or\n(b) a person authorised to exercise any function of such an authority relating to such a benefit,\nto supply benefit administration information held by the authority or other person to, or to a person providing services to, the Board for use for any purpose relating to tax credits, child benefit or guardian’s allowance.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1) “benefit administration information”, in relation to an authority or other person, means any information which is relevant to the exercise of any function relating to housing benefit or council tax benefit by the authority or other person.",
  "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",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/21/schedule/5/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}