The Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Persons required to provide information

2.—(1) Those persons of a prescribed description for the purpose of section 103B(2)(ia) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (power of authorised officers to require information) are listed in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d)—

(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 person who makes a determination of housing costs in accordance with the Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016(1) to the extent that the information required relates to such determination;

(d) an officer of the Department of Finance(2) to the extent that the information required relates to rate relief under the Rate Relief Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017(3).

(2) In this regulation—

“UC Regulations” means the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016(4);

“relevant childcare” has the meaning given in regulation 37 of the UC Regulations;

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

“universal credit” means universal credit under Part 2 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.

(1)

S.R. 2016 No. 222.

(2)

The Department of Finance and Personnel was renamed the Department of Finance by section 1(4) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.)).

(3)

S.R. 2017 No. 184.

(4)

S.R. 2016 No. 216.