Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992

128 Claims etc. N.I.

(1) Unless the Department otherwise determines, a grant under section 127 above shall not be payable until the Housing Executive has made a claim for it in such form as the Department may determine.

(2) The Department may withhold from the Housing Executive so much of any grant under section 127 above as it thinks fit until either—

(a) the Executive has supplied it with prescribed particulars relating to its claim for a grant and complied with prescribed conditions as to records, certificates, audit or otherwise; or

(b) the Department is satisfied that there is a good reason for the Executive’s failure to supply those particulars or comply with those conditions.

(3) If the Housing Executive fails to make a claim for a grant within such period as the Department considers reasonable, the Department may withhold from the Executive such part of the grant as it thinks fit for so long as it thinks fit.

(4) Where the amount of the grant paid to the Housing Executive for any year is found to be incorrect, the amount payable to it for any subsequent year may be adjusted for the purpose of rectifying that mistake in whole or in part.