Search Legislation

Advanced Search

Welfare Reform Act 2012

Section 71

548.New subsection (9A) allows regulations to provide that amounts recoverable under section 71(8) (i.e. overpayments of benefits not covered by section 71ZB) may be recovered by deduction from earnings.

549.New subsection (9B) allows the Secretary of State to prescribe in regulations the definition of ‘earnings’ for the purpose of this section.

550.New subsection (9C) describes the related issues for which the Secretary of State may prescribe in regulations under subsection (9A). These include preventing an employer from making deductions from earnings where they would take earnings below a specified level, allowing for an employer to deduct a prescribed sum from earnings in respect of the employer’s administration costs, providing for a criminal offence for non-compliance with certain of the obligations under those regulations and legislating as to priorities of deductions from earnings made under these powers as against those made under other legislation.

Back to top

Options/Help

Print Options

Close

Explanatory Notes

Text created by the government department responsible for the subject matter of the Act to explain what the Act sets out to achieve and to make the Act accessible to readers who are not legally qualified. Explanatory Notes were introduced in 1999 and accompany all Public Acts except Appropriation, Consolidated Fund, Finance and Consolidation Acts.

Close

More Resources

Access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item from this tab. Dependent on the legislation item being viewed this may include:

  • the original print PDF of the as enacted version that was used for the print copy
  • lists of changes made by and/or affecting this legislation item
  • confers power and blanket amendment details
  • all formats of all associated documents
  • correction slips
  • links to related legislation and further information resources