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PART 4INFORMATION-SHARING IN RELATION TO RATES UNDER ARTICLES 121 TO 123 OF THE 2015 ORDER

Supply of relevant information by the Department

12.  The purposes prescribed under Article 121(1) of the 2015 Order in relation to rates (purposes for which the Department or a person providing services to the Department may supply relevant information to a qualifying person) are—

(a)making a rate relief scheme;

(b)determining a person’s entitlement or continued entitlement to a reduction in rates under a rate relief scheme;

(c)preventing, detecting, securing evidence of, or prosecuting the commission of, offence relating to a reduction in rates.

Holding purposes

13.  The purposes prescribed under Article 121(3) of the 2015 Order in relation to rates as purposes for which relevant information must be held by a qualifying person in order for them to use or supply it as set out in that paragraph, are—

(a)making a rate relief scheme;

(b)determining a person’s entitlement or continued entitlement to a reduction in rates under a rate relief scheme.

(c)preventing, detecting, securing evidence of, or prosecuting the commission of, an offence relating to a reduction in rates.

Using purposes

14.—(1) This regulation applies to relevant information held by a qualifying person for any purpose listed in regulation 13.

(2) The purposes set out in paragraph (3) are prescribed—

(a)under Article 121(3)(a) of the 2015 Order as a purpose for which the information may be used by that qualifying person; and

(b)under Article 121(3)(b) of the 2015 Order as a purpose for use in relation to which the information may be supplied by that qualifying person to another qualifying person.

(3) The purposes are any purposes connected with—

(a)making a rate relief scheme;

(b)determining a person’s entitlement or continued entitlement to a reduction in rates under a rate relief scheme.

(c)preventing, detecting, securing evidence of, or prosecuting the commission of, an offence relating to a reduction in rates;

(d)any proceedings in connection with a reduction in rates made under Article 30A of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977;

(e)the purposes referred to in regulation 6(1)(a)(i) or (iii), (b) or (c).