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Amendment of article 9 of the Principal Scheme

2.—(1) Article 9 (provision of information by approval body) of the Principal Scheme is amended as follows.

(2) For article 9 substitute—

9.(1) The approval body will supply—

(a)to the Commissioner for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (“HMRC”) such information as they may require for the discharge of any of HMRC’s functions relating to working tax credit and which is information relating to the approval, or the refusal or withdrawal of approval, of persons under this Scheme; and

(b)to the Secretary of State such information as the Secretary of State may require for the discharge of the Secretary of State’s functions relating to universal credit and which is information relating to the approval, or the refusal or withdrawal of approval, of persons under this Scheme.

(2) In this article “universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012(1).