The Social Security (Persons Required to Provide Information) Regulations 2013

• Citation: S.I. 2013/1510
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Persons Required to Provide Information) Regulations 2013.

(2) They come into force on 1st October 2013.

Section 2 Persons required to provide information

(1) The following are prescribed as descriptions of persons for the purpose of section 109B(2)(ia) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (power of authorised officers to require information)—

(a) a person who provides relevant childcare;

(b) a person to whom a person in receipt of universal credit (“C”) is liable to make rent payments in respect of accommodation which C occupies, or purports to occupy, as their home where C’s award of universal credit includes an amount in respect of such payments;

(c) a rent officer to the extent that the information required relates to the rent officer’s functions under section 122 of the Housing Act 1996 ;

(d) a local authority which administers a council tax reduction scheme to the extent that the information required relates to such a scheme.

(2) In this regulation—

(a) “ UC Regulations ” means the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 ;

(b) “council tax reduction scheme”—

(i) in England and Wales, has the meaning given in section 13A(9) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 and includes a default scheme within the meaning of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1A (or in Wales paragraph 6(1)(e) of Schedule 1B) to that Act; and

(ii) in Scotland, means a means-tested reduction to an individual’s council tax liability in accordance with the Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2021 or the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 ;

(c) “relevant childcare” has the meaning given in regulation 35 of the UC Regulations;

(d) “rent payments” has the meaning given in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the UC Regulations;

(e) “universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.