3.—(1) The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 92 (information to be supplied by the Secretary of State to an appropriate authority)–
(a)in sub–paragraph (k) of paragraph (1)–
(i)in head (i) for the words “calculation and recovery” there shall be substituted the words “detection, investigation, calculation, recovery and prevention”;
(ii)in head (ii) for the words “the investigation” there shall be substituted the words “the detection, investigation”;
(b)in paragraph (2) after the words “in this regulation” there shall be added the words “and in regulation 93”.
(3) (a) Regulation 93 (information to be supplied by an appropriate authority to the Secretary of State) shall be renumbered paragraph (1) of regulation 93.
(b)In sub–paragraph (c) of paragraph (1) of regulation 93–
(i)in head (i) for the words “calculation and recovery” there shall be substituted the words “detection, investigation, calculation, recovery and prevention”;
(ii)in head (ii) for the words “the investigation” there shall be substituted the words “the detection, investigation”;
(iii)in head (iii) the full stop shall be replaced by a comma;
(iv)after head (iii) there shall be added the words–
“including, in so far as it is required by the Secretary of State for any such purpose, any of the information specified in paragraph (2) (“the specified information”).”.
(c)After paragraph (1) of regulation 93 there shall be added the following paragraph–
“(2) The specified information referred to in paragraph (1) is–
(a)the name, date of birth, national insurance number and sex of any person and of any member of his family;
(b)the address of any person and any previous address of his during the 3 years preceding the date on which such information is supplied;
(c)whether the claim of any person has been determined and, if so, whether council tax benefit has been awarded;
(d)where council tax benefit is paid to a person entitled to that benefit, the manner in which it is paid to him;
(e)where a person has a bank account or building society account, particulars of that account;
(f)the name and address of any employer of any person;
(g)particulars of the income and capital of any person and of any member of his family.”.