The Housing Benefit (Information from Landlords and Agents) Regulations 1997

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations, which may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Information from Landlords and Agents) Regulations 1997, shall come into force on 3rd November 1997.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act” means the Social Security Administration Act 1992;

“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(1);

“the notice” means the notice prescribed in regulation 3(1)(b);

“relevant information” means such information as is prescribed in regulation 4;

“the requirer” means a person within regulation 2, who requires information pursuant to that regulation;

“the section” means section 126A of the Act and references to a subsection are to a subsection of the section;

“the supplier” means an appropriate person who is required, pursuant to regulations 2 and 3, to supply relevant information and any person who is not so required is not, for the purposes of supplying information pursuant to the section and these Regulations, an appropriate person,

and other expressions used both in these Regulations and in the Housing Benefit Regulations shall have the same meanings in these Regulations as they have in the Housing Benefit Regulations.

(3) In these Regulations a reference to a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations bearing that number and, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in a regulation to a numbered or lettered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that letter or number in that regulation and a reference in a paragraph to a lettered or numbered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter or number.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1971.