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Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003

Section 161: Use of information held by the Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers etc.

341.This section allows information obtained for the purposes of the benefit recovery scheme, as set out in the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997, to be used for the purposes of the scheme relating to recovery of NHS costs and vice versa. This will mean, for example, that in cases involving both NHS and benefit recovery a single set of information can be used for both purposes. Subsections (1) to (3) enable information held for the purposes of the social security scheme to be supplied to those responsible for the NHS costs recovery scheme. Subsections (4) to (6) enable information held for the purposes of the NHS costs recovery scheme to be supplied to those responsible for the social security scheme.

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