Childcare Funding (Wales) Act 2019

4Provision of information by third parties

This adran has no associated Nodiadau Esboniadol

(1)The regulations may permit the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, or a person providing services to the Commissioners, to provide qualifying information to the Welsh Ministers or to a person providing services to the Welsh Ministers.

(2)The regulations may also permit a government department or a Minister of the Crown, or a person providing services to a government department or a Minister of the Crown, to provide qualifying information to the Welsh Ministers or to a person providing services to the Welsh Ministers.

(3)The regulations may permit or require a local authority, or a person providing services to a local authority, to provide qualifying information to the Welsh Ministers, or to a person providing services to the Welsh Ministers.

(4)“Qualifying information” means information that is specified in the regulations or that is of a description specified in the regulations; but information or a description of information may be so specified only if the Welsh Ministers consider it appropriate to do so for the purposes of determinations as to eligibility for funding under section 1.

(5)Provision for the disclosure of information held by—

(a)the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs;

(b)a Minister of the Crown;

(c)a government department;

(d)a person providing services to a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c),

may be made in the regulations only if the appropriate Minister has consented to the provision.

(6)The appropriate Minister is—

(a)in relation to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the Treasury;

(b)in relation to a Minister of the Crown or a government department, the Secretary of State.