Valid from 03/01/1995
22After subsection (3) of section 127 of that Act (housing benefit) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(4)Where, whether by virtue of an order made under section 70 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 or otherwise, a person is authorised by an authority to exercise any of their functions relating to housing benefit—
(a)subsection (1) above shall have effect in relation to information required in connection with the exercise of those functions, and
(b)subsection (2) above shall have effect in relation to information obtained by reason of their exercise,
as if the authorised person were an authority.”