Welfare Reform Act 2012

Information-sharing: miscellaneous E+W+S

134 Information-sharing for social security or employment purposes etc E+W+S

(1) Section 72 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (supply of information for certain purposes) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2)(b), after “designated“ there is inserted “(specifically or by description)”.

(3) The following are repealed—

(a) in subsection (6), the words “(subject to subsection (6A))”;

(b) subsection (6A).

(4) In Schedule 1 to the Education and Skills Act 2008, paragraph 74(3) and (4) is repealed.