The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014

Rent Repayment Orders and the supply of Universal Credit information

9.—(1) The Social Security Administration Act 1992 is amended as follows—

(a) after section 133 (furnishing of addresses for maintenance proceedings, etc.) insert the heading “Universal Credit information”; and

(b) after that heading insert—

“133A.    Supply of universal credit information

(1) This section applies to information that is held by—

(a) the Secretary of State; or

(b) a person providing services to the Secretary of State, in connection with the provision of those services,

that relates to an award of universal credit.

(2) Information to which this section applies may be supplied to—

(a) a local housing authority;

(b) a licensing authority; or

(c) a person authorised to exercise any function of a local housing authority or a licensing authority,

for use in connection with obtaining a rent repayment order in respect of an award of universal credit or recovering an amount payable under such an order.

(3) For the purposes of this section—

“licensing authority” means a person designated by order under section 3 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014(1);

“local housing authority” has the meaning given by section 261 of the Housing Act 2004(2); and

“rent repayment order” means a rent repayment order as referred to in section 73 or 96 of the Housing Act 2004 or section 32 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014.”

(2) The Rent Repayment Orders (Supplementary Provisions) (England) Regulations 2007(3) are amended as follows—

(a) In regulation 1(3) (citation, commencement, application and interpretation), for the definition of “relevant award of universal credit” substitute—

““relevant award of universal credit” means—

(a)

for the purposes of sections 73 and 74 of the Act, an award as referred to in subsection (6A) of that section 73;

(b)

for the purposes of sections 96 and 97 of the Act, an award as referred to in subsection (6A) of that section 96.”;

(b) In regulation 2 (overpayments of housing benefit)—

(i) for the heading substitute “Overpayments of housing benefit or universal credit”; and

(ii) in paragraph (2)(b), for “section 74(2A)(a)” substitute “section 74(2A)(a) or 97(2A)(a)”.

(1)

2014 anaw. 7.

(2)

2004 c. 34

(3)

S.I. 2007/572. Regulations 1 and 2 were amended by S.I. 2013/630.