The Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Information

9.—(1) A relevant authority which holds social security information may—

(a) use that information—

(i) in connection with arrangements known as the New Deal and made under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950(1);

(ii) for any purpose to which regulations 2 and 4, or any regulations inserted by these Regulations, apply, or

(iii) for purposes connected with the employment or training of the persons to whom it relates.

(b) supply the information—

(i) to any other relevant authority to enable that authority to carry out a work-focused interview or any function conferred upon it by these Regulations or by regulations inserted by these Regulations;

(ii) in so far as relevant for the purpose for which it is being provided, to any person in respect of whom the person undertaking the work-focused interview is notified has a vacancy or is about to have a vacancy in his employment or at his place of employment;

(iii) to any other relevant authority in connection with any scheme operated by, or any arrangements made by, the authority for purposes connected with employment or training;

(iv) to any other relevant authority in connection with arrangements made under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 and known as the New Deal.

(2) Where the work-focused interview is undertaken by a relevant authority other than the authority which obtained the information, then the authority supplying the information shall, for the purposes of that interview, supply any other social security information held by it.

(3) A relevant authority which holds social security information may supply that information to any other relevant authority for the purposes of research, monitoring or evaluation in so far as it relates to any purpose specified in paragraph (4).

(4) The purposes specified in this paragraph are—

(a) work-focused interviews;

(b) any purpose for which regulations 2 and 4, or any regulations inserted by these Regulations, apply;

(c) any scheme or arrangements made by the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment connected with employment or training, and

(d) Article 57 of the Order (special schemes for claimants for jobseeker’s allowance).

(1)

1950 c. 29; section 1 was amended by Article 3 of the Employment and Training (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/1087 (N.I. 10)) and Article 5 of the Industrial Training (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1200 (N.I. 8))