The Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Interest on unpaid repayments

41.—(1) Where an employer has not on or before the 14th day after the end of a year of assessment paid an amount which he is liable to pay to the collector under regulation 39 in that year that amount shall carry interest at the rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989 for the purposes of section 86 of the 1970 Act from that date until payment.

(2) Interest payable under this regulation shall be recoverable as if it were an amount which the employer is liable to pay under regulation 39.

(3) An amount to which paragraph (1) applies shall carry interest from the day mentioned in that paragraph even if that date is a non-business day within the meaning of section 92 of the Bills of Exchange Act 1882.

(4) A certificate of the collector that any amount of interest payable under this regulation has not been paid to him, or to the best of his knowledge and belief, to any other collector or to any person acting on his behalf or on behalf of another collector, shall be sufficient evidence that the employer is liable to pay to the collector the amount of interest shown on the certificate and that the sum is unpaid and due to be paid, and any document purporting to be such a certificate shall be deemed to be a certificate until the contrary is proved.

(5) Where an employer has paid interest on an amount under this regulation and it is found not to have been due to be paid, although the amount in respect of which it was paid was due to be paid, that interest shall be repaid to him.