{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-claims-and-notifications-and-payments-by-the-board-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-claims-and-notifications-and-payments-by-the-board-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/723",
  "legislation_title": "The Tax Credits (Claims and Notifications and Payments by the Board) (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-claims-and-notifications-and-payments-by-the-board-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Tax Credits (Claims and Notifications) Regulations 2002",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 2 (interpretation) after the definition of “married couple” insert—\n““relevant authority” means—\n(a) the Board;\n(b) the Secretary of State or the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland; or\n(c) a person providing services to the Board, the Secretary of State or that Department in connection with tax credits;”.\n(2) In the following places for “an appropriate office” substitute “a relevant authority at an appropriate office”—\n(a) regulation 3(2) (twice) and (3) (twice);\n(b) regulation 4(c);\n(c) regulation 5(2) and (7);\n(d) regulation 6(3);\n(e) regulation 7(1);\n(f) regulation 11(3)(b);\n(g) regulation 19(a);\n(h) regulation 22(2) and (4);\n(i) regulation 24(3);\n(j) regulation 25(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/723/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:28:37.045484+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."
}