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2002 No. 3036

TAX CREDITS

The Tax Credits (Administrative Arrangements) Regulations 2002

  Made 9th December 2002 
  Laid before Parliament 10th December 2002 
  Coming into force 1st January 2003 

The Commissioners of Inland Revenue, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 58 and 65(1), (2), (7) and (9) of the Tax Credits Act 2002[1], hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Tax Credits (Administrative Arrangements) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st January 2003.

Interpretation
     2. In these Regulations - 

Provision of information or evidence to relevant authorities
     3.  - (1) Information or evidence relating to tax credits which is held - 

may be provided to a relevant authority for the purposes of, or for any purposes connected with, the exercise of that relevant authority's functions under the principal Regulations.

    (2) Information or evidence relating to tax credits may be provided to a relevant authority by persons other than the Board (whether or not persons by whom claims or notifications relating to tax credits are or have been made or given).

Giving of information or advice by relevant authorities
     4. A relevant authority to which a claim or notification is or has been made or given by a person in accordance with the principal Regulations may give information or advice relating to tax credits to that person.

Recording, verification and holding, and forwarding, of claims etc. received by relevant authorities
     5.  - (1) A relevant authority may record and hold claims and notifications received by virtue of the principal Regulations and information or evidence received by virtue of regulation 3(2).

    (2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a relevant authority must forward to the Board or a person providing services to the Board such a claim or notification, or such information or evidence, as soon as reasonably practicable after being satisfied that it is complete.

    (3) Before forwarding a claim in accordance with paragraph (2), a relevant authority must verify - 

    (4) If a relevant authority cannot locate any national insurance number in respect of a person by whom such a claim is made, it must forward to the Board or a person providing services to the Board the claim (notwithstanding that it is not complete).

    (5) "National insurance number" means the national insurance number allocated within the meaning of - 

    (6) "Claim for benefit" means a claim for - 


Nick Montagu

Tim Flesher
Two of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue

9th December 2002


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


Section 58 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) ("section 58") applies where regulations under section 4 or 6 of that Act permit or require a claim or notification relating to a tax credit to be made or given to a relevant authority (within the meaning given by subsection (3) of section 58). Where section 58 applies, regulations may make provision as to the administrative arrangements between a relevant authority and the Commissioners of Inland Revenue who have the care and management of tax credits.

These Regulations are made under section 58 in order to provide for administrative arrangements in relation to claims and notifications made or given to a relevant authority in accordance with the Tax Credits (Claims and Notifications) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2014).

Regulation 1 provides for citation and commencement, and regulation 2 for interpretation.

Regulation 3 provides for the supply of information and evidence to a relevant authority.

Regulation 4 provides for the giving of information or advice by a relevant authority.

Regulation 5 provides for the recording, verification, holding and forwarding of claims etc. received by a relevant authority.

Notes:

 [1] 2002 c. 21.back

[2] S.I. 2002/2014.back

[3] S.I. 2001/769.back

[4] S.R. 2001 No. 102.back

[5] 1992 c. 4.back

[6] 1992 c. 7. The functions of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland under this Act were transferred to the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland by Article 8(b) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 6 to, the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 481).back

[7] 1995 c. 18.back

[8] S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15).back


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  Prepared 16 December 2002

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