The Housing Benefit (Information from Landlords and Agents) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
These Regulations implement provisions of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11)) (“the Order”). Regulation 2 gives the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in relation to the administration of housing benefit and any person exercising such functions for them a power to require certain landlords and their agents to provide information as to their interests in residential property, including that of any associated bodies (regulations 3 and 4).