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3.—(1) This regulation applies where social security information held by the Secretary of State was supplied by a local authority to the Secretary of State and this information—
(a)was used by the local authority in connection with a person’s claim for, or award of, council tax benefit or housing benefit; and
(b)is relevant to that person’s claim for, or award of, a specified benefit.
(2) The Secretary of State must, for the purposes of the person’s claim for, or award of, a specified benefit, use that information without verifying its accuracy.
(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply where—
(a)the information is supplied more than twelve months after it was used by a local authority in connection with a claim for, or an award of, council tax benefit or housing benefit; or
(b)the information is supplied within twelve months of its use by the local authority but the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds for believing the information has changed in the period between its use by the local authority and its supply to the Secretary of State; or
(c)the date on which the information was used by the local authority cannot be determined.
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