{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-claims-and-notifications-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-claims-and-notifications-regulations-2002/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2014",
  "legislation_title": "The Tax Credits (Claims and Notifications) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-claims-and-notifications-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Use of electronic communications to make claims or to give notices or notifications",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations “writing” includes writing produced by electronic communications that are approved by directions issued by or on behalf of the Board.\n(2) If a claim which is required by these Regulations to be made to a relevant authority at an appropriate office is made in writing produced by electronic communications, it shall be treated for the purposes of these Regulations as having been made to, and received by, a relevant authority at an appropriate office on the date on which it is recorded on an official computer system.\n(3) If a notice or notification which is required by these Regulations to be given to a relevant authority at an appropriate office is given in writing produced by electronic communications, it shall be treated for the purposes of these Regulations as having been given to, and received by, a relevant authority at an appropriate office on the date on which it is recorded on an official computer system.\n(4) In this regulation—\n(a) “electronic communications” has the meaning given by section 132(10) of the Finance Act 1999 ;\n(b) “official computer system” means a computer system maintained by or on behalf of the Board to—\n(i) send or receive information, or\n(ii) process or store information.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2)(3) substituted (6.4.2003) by The Tax Credits (Claims and Notifications and Payments by the Board) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/723), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1999 c. 16."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2014/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:51:15.790178+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."
}