Legislation – Welfare Reform Act 2012
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Part 5Social security: general
Claims and awards
99Powers to require information relating to claims and awards
(1)
Section 5 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (regulations about claims and payments) is amended as follows.
(2)
In subsection (1), paragraphs (h) and (hh) (powers to make provision requiring the furnishing of information or evidence) are repealed.
(3)
“(1A)
Regulations may make provision for requiring a person of a prescribed description to supply any information or evidence which is, or could be, relevant to—
(a)
a claim or award relating to a benefit to which this section applies, or
(b)
potential claims or awards relating to such a benefit.”
(4)
Subsection (3A) is repealed.
(5)
In section 22 of the Social Security Act 1998 (suspension for failure to furnish information etc), in subsection (3), for “subsection (1)(hh) of section 5” there is substituted “
.
section 5(1A)
”