133Community charges: cross-border information
(1)The Secretary of State may make regulations providing that any person mentioned in subsection (2) below shall supply to a community charges registration officer for an English or Welsh charging authority such information as fulfils the following conditions—
(a)it is in the possession or control of the person concerned,
(b)the registration officer requests the person concerned to supply it,
(c)it is requested by the registration officer for the purpose of carrying out his functions under Part I, and
(d)it does not fall within any prescribed description of information which need not be supplied.
(2)The persons are—
(a)the community charges registration officer for a Scottish region or islands area,
(b)a Scottish regional council or islands council, and
(c)the assessor or electoral registration officer for any area in Scotland.
(3)The Secretary of State may make regulations providing that any person mentioned in subsection (4) below shall supply to a community charges registration officer for a Scottish region or islands area such information as fulfils the following conditions—
(a)it is in the possession or control of the person concerned,
(b)the registration officer requests the person concerned to supply it,
(c)it is requested by the registration officer for the purpose of carrying out his functions under the [1987 c. 47.] Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987, and
(d)it does not fall within any prescribed description of information which need not be supplied.
(4)The persons are—
(a)the community charges registration officer for an English or Welsh charging authority,
(b)an English or Welsh charging authority, and
(c)the electoral registration officer for any area in England and Wales.
(5)Regulations under this section may include provision that the information is to be supplied in a prescribed form and within a prescribed period of the request being made.