extent N.I. + Information SharingN.I.

regulation 8 + 8.—(1) The Department may share information on welfare supplementary payments and administrative payments with—

regulation 8 1 a + (a)the Northern Ireland Housing Executive,

regulation 8 1 b + (b)a housing association registered under Part 2 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(1),

regulation 8 1 c + (c)a body which appears to the Department to represent housing associations in Northern Ireland.

(2) The information may only be shared for the purposes of managing the accounts of those bodies, including managing the accounts of tenants.

(3) In this Regulation “administrative payment “means a payment—

regulation 8 3 a + (a)made before these Regulations come into operation,

regulation 8 3 b + (b)made from sums issued out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland under the authority of an Act of the Assembly or an Act of Parliament or under section 59 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998(2) and appropriated for the purposes of the Department; and

regulation 8 3 c + (c)that corresponds with what would have been paid in respect of a person as a welfare supplementary payment under these Regulations if these Regulations had been in operation at the time the payment was made.