Information sharing
23. After regulation 4G insert—
“Information sharing
4H.—(1) 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.
(2) 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 reconciling its accounts.
(3) Information supplied under this regulation must not be supplied by the recipient of the information to any other person or body without—
(a)the authority of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, in the case of information supplied under paragraph (1),
(b)the authority of the Department, in the case of information supplied under paragraph (2).
(4) 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.
(5) This regulation does not limit the circumstances in which information may be supplied apart from this regulation.”.