Disclosure of information to a court or tribunal
12.—(1) The Department may disclose any information held for the purposes of the Order to—
(a)a court;
(b)any tribunal or other body or person mentioned in the Order;
(c)a person with a right of appeal under the Order to an appeal tribunal,
where such disclosure is made for the purposes of any proceedings before any of those bodies relating to the Order, the benefit Acts, the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1) or Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007(2).
(2) For the purposes of this regulation “proceedings” includes the determination of an application referred to an appeal tribunal under Article 28D(1)(b)(3) of the Order.
(3) The Department may disclose information held for the purposes of the Order to a court in any case where—
(a)that court has exercised any power it has to make, vary or revive a maintenance order or to vary a maintenance agreement; and
(b)such disclosure is made for the purposes of any proceedings before that court in relation to that maintenance order or that maintenance agreement or for the purposes of any matters arising out of those proceedings.
Article 28D was inserted by Article 3(1) of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2702 (N.I. 13)). Paragraph 1(b) was amended by paragraph 21 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) and is substituted by section 5(3) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 c. 4 (N.I.)