Childcare Act 2006

83 Supply of information to HMRC and local authorities

(1) The Chief Inspector must provide prescribed information to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, and the relevant local authority, if he takes any of the following steps under this Part—

(a) grants a person’s application for registration;

(b) gives notice of his intention to cancel a person’s registration;

(c) cancels a person’s registration;

(d) suspends a person’s registration;

(e) removes a person from the register at that person’s request.

(2) The Chief Inspector must also provide prescribed information to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, and the relevant local authority, if an order is made under section 72(2).

(3) The information which may be prescribed for the purposes of this section is—

(a) in the case of information to be provided to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, information which Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs may require for the purposes of their functions in relation to tax credits;

(b) in the case of information to be provided to the relevant local authority, information which would assist the local authority in the discharge of their functions under section 12.

(4) In this section, “the relevant local authority” means the English local authority for the area in which the person provides (or, as the case may be, has provided) the early years provision or later years provision in respect of which he is (or was) registered.