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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 General

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. PART 2 Recoverability

    1. 3.Recoverable amounts

    2. 4.Persons from whom an overpayment may be recovered

    3. 5.Circumstances in which a determination need not be reversed, varied, revised or superseded prior to recovery

  4. PART 3 Prevention of duplication of payments

    1. 6.Duplication and prescribed income

  5. PART 4 Calculation of recoverable amount of an overpayment

    1. 7.Diminution of capital

    2. 8.Sums to be deducted

    3. 9.Sums to be deducted: change of dwelling

  6. PART 5 The process of recovery

    1. 10.Recovery by deduction from benefits

    2. 11.Recovery by deduction from universal credit

    3. 12.Recovery by deduction from jobseeker’s allowance

    4. 13.Recovery by deduction from employment and support allowance

    5. 14.Recovery by deduction from state pension credit

    6. 15.Restrictions on recovery of rent and consequent notifications

    7. 16.Offsetting

  7. PART 6 Recovery by deduction from earnings

    1. 17.Interpretation of this Part

    2. 18.Notices

    3. 19.Amount to be deducted by employer

    4. 20.Employer to notify liable person of deduction

    5. 21.Payment by employer to the appropriate authority

    6. 22.Information to be provided by the liable person

    7. 23.Duty of employers and others to notify appropriate authority

    8. 24.Power to vary notices

    9. 25.Discharge of notices

    10. 26.Lapse of notices

    11. 27.Crown employment

    12. 28.Priority as between notices and orders requiring deduction from earnings

    13. 29.Offences

  8. PART 7 Consequential amendments and revocations

    1. 30.Amendment of the Social Fund (Recovery by Deductions from Benefits) Regulations

    2. 31.Amendment of the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations

    3. 32.Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations

    4. 33.Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations

    5. 34.Revocations

  9. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE

  11. Explanatory Note