Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Paragraph 9 of Schedule 5 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) enables information relating to tax credits, child benefit or guardian’s allowance to be provided by the Board of Inland Revenue to the Department of Health, the National Assembly for Wales or the Scottish Ministers (or to persons providing services to those bodies) for the purposes of such functions relating to health as may be prescribed. These Regulations prescribe such functions.
Regulation 1 provides for the citation, commencement and extent of these Regulations.
Regulation 2 prescribes an additional function relating to health, namely the conduct of a survey of the mental health persons in Great Britain who are under the age of 17 on 1st September 2003. It also makes it clear that these Regulations do not limit the operation of the Tax Credits (Provision of Information) (Functions Relating to Health) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/731).