Regulation 4H Information sharingF1
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive may supply to the Department such information as the Department may require for the purposes of functions relating to the payment and administration of welfare supplementary payments.
The Department may supply to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive such information relating to the payment of welfare supplementary payments as the Northern Ireland Housing Executive may require for the purposes of F2—
reconciling its accounts F3, or
determining whether a person is entitled to a discretionary housing payment under the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001.
The Department may supply information which relates to the payment and administration of welfare supplementary payments and is held by the Department-
to a registered housing association, for use by the association in connection with the management of tenants’ accounts; or
to a body which appears to the Department to represent housing associations in Northern Ireland, for use by those associations in that connection.
Information supplied under this regulation must not be supplied by the recipient of the information to any other person or body without—
the authority of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, in the case of information supplied under paragraph (1),
the authority of the Department, in the case of information supplied under paragraph (2) F5or (2A) .
Where information supplied under this regulation has been used for the purposes for which it was supplied, it is lawful for it to be used for any purposes for which information held for those purposes could reasonably be used.
This regulation does not limit the circumstances in which information may be supplied apart from this regulation.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Reg. 4H inserted (6.2.2017) by The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/28), regs. 1(2), 23
- F2
Words in reg. 4H(2) renumbered as reg. 4H(2)(a) (temp until 31.3.2028) (20.3.2025) by The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Universal Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/60), regs. 1(2), 4(a)
- F3
Reg. 4H(2)(b) and word inserted (temp until 31.3.2028) (20.3.2025) by The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Universal Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/60), regs. 1(2), 4(b)
- F4
Reg. 4H(2A) inserted (10.2.2022) by The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/32), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(a) (with reg. 1(3))
- F5
Words in reg. 4H(3)(b) inserted (10.2.2022) by The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/32), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(b) (with reg. 1(3))