The Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Supply of government information for fraud prevention and verification

37.—(1) This regulation applies to information which is held by, or by a person providing services to, a Minister of the Crown or a Northern Ireland department or other government department and which relates to any matter relating to rate relief.

(2) Information to which this regulation applies may be supplied to, or to a person providing services to, the Department—

(a) for use in the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of offences relating to rate relief; or

(b) for use in checking the accuracy of information relating to rate relief and (where appropriate) amending or supplementing such information.

(3) Information supplied under paragraph (2) shall not be supplied by the recipient to any other person or body unless—

(a) it could be supplied to that person or body under paragraph (2);

(b) it is supplied for the purposes of any civil or criminal proceedings relating to rate relief in the principal Order; or

(c) it is supplied to the Executive.

(4) But where information supplied under paragraph (2) has been used (in accordance with sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph) in amending or supplementing other information, it is lawful for it to be—

(a) supplied to any person or body to whom that other information could be supplied; or

(b) used for any purpose for which that other information could be used.

(5) This regulation does not limit the circumstances in which information may be supplied apart from this regulation.