The Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

Information to be supplied by an authority to another authority

81.—(1) For the purposes of section 128A of the Administration Act M1 (duty of an authority to disclose information to another authority) the circumstances in which information is to be disclosed are prescribed in paragraph (2) and the information prescribed by this regulation is described in paragraph (3).

(2) The circumstances prescribed in this paragraph are, where—

(a) there is a mover who is or was allowed council tax benefit by appropriate authority “A”;

(b) who is liable to pay council tax in respect of his second dwelling to authority “B”; and

(c) either—

(i) the extended payment is claimed from authority A; or

(ii) the extended payment is claimed from authority B, who then requests the prescribed information from authority A,

authority A shall disclose to authority B the information prescribed in paragraph (3).

(3) The information to be disclosed is—

(a) in a case where that extended payment was claimed from authority A, details relevant to that claim of—

(i) the matters certified pursuant to regulation 60 of and paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the Council Tax Benefits Regulations 2006; and

(ii) the matters notified pursuant to regulation 60 of and paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to those Regulations; and

(iii) the date it was so claimed;

(b) in the case of a person to whom regulation 6(5) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies—

(i) the date on which he was first engaged in the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 6(5) of those Regulations; and

(ii) the date on which his entitlement to income support ceased or was expected to cease; and

(c) in any case—

(i) the weekly rate of council tax benefit allowed to the mover by authority A;

(ii) if any deduction was being made from that benefit in respect of non-dependants, pursuant to regulations 40(1) and 42, the amount of those deductions;

(iii) if any addition was being made to any amount payable in respect of council tax to recover recoverable excess benefit pursuant to regulation 71(2)(b), the amount of those additions;

(iv) the date on which his entitlement to council tax benefit ceased;

(v) if an extended payment was allowed to the mover, the amount and date of any such payment;

(vi) if no extended payment was allowed, why none was allowed.

(4) In this regulation “mover” and “second dwelling” have the meanings assigned to them in paragraph 7 of Schedule 6 to the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006.

Marginal Citations

M1 Inserted by the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18), section 28(2)