The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 1998

Amendment of article 5 of the principal Order

3.  For article 5 of the principal Order (requirement to keep records and provide information), there shall be substituted the following article–

“Requirement to keep records and provide information

5.— (1) The second condition is that the authority submitting a claim shall–

(a) provide to the Secretary of State the information referred to in paragraph (2); and

(b) keep and, where the Secretary of State requires it or it is otherwise appropriate to do so, produce records with a bearing on that claim.

(2) The information referred to in this paragraph is such information as the Secretary of State requires, or as may otherwise be necessary, to satisfy him that–

(a) the claim is full, accurate and properly calculated; and

(b) any subsidy claimed or paid for the relevant year or for an earlier year has been properly claimed or paid in accordance with the provision of this Order or, as the case may be, the previous Orders.”.