Liability of person paying compensation
Liability to pay Department amount of benefits8
1
A person who makes a compensation payment in any case is liable to pay to the Department an amount equal to the total amount of the recoverable benefits.
2
The liability referred to in paragraph (1) arises immediately before the compensation payment or, if there is more than one, the first of them is made.
3
No amount becomes payable under this Article before the end of the period of 14 days from the day on which the liability arises.
4
Subject to paragraph (3), an amount becomes payable under this Article at the end of the period of 14 days beginning with (and including) the day on which a certificate of recoverable benefits is first issued showing that the amount of recoverable benefit to which it relates has been or is likely to have been paid before a specified date.
Recovery of payments due under Article 89
1
This Article applies where a person has made a compensation payment but—
a
has not applied for a certificate of recoverable benefits, or
b
has not made a payment to the Department under Article 8 before the end of the period allowed under that Article.
2
The Department may—
a
issue the person who made the compensation payment with a certificate of recoverable benefits, if none has been issued, or
b
issue him with a copy of the certificate of recoverable benefits or (if more than one has been issued) the most recent one,
and (in either case) issue him with a demand that payment of any amount due under Article 8 be made immediately.
3
The Department may, in accordance with paragraph (4), recover the amount for which a demand for payment is made under paragraph (2) from the person who made the compensation payment.
4
Any amount recoverable under paragraph (3) shall, if the county court so orders, be enforceable as if it were payable under an order of that court.
5
A document bearing a certificate which—
a
is signed by a person authorised to do so by the Department, and
b
states that the document, apart from the certificate, is a record of the amount recoverable under paragraph (3),
is conclusive evidence that that amount is so recoverable.
6
A certificate under paragraph (5) purporting to be signed by a person authorised to do so by the Department is to be treated as so signed unless the contrary is proved.