C1 Part III Overpayments and Adjustments of Benefit
F1Recovery of benefit payments
Ss. 69ZB-69ZH inserted and cross-heading (4.4.2016 for specified purposes, 2.5.2016 for specified purposes, 22.6.2016 otherwise except in relation to universal credit, 27.9.2017 in so far as not already in force) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006), arts. 2(2), 109(1); S.R. 2016/46, art. 4(a); S.R. 2016/215, arts. 2(6)(b), 3(3); S.R. 2017/190, art. 3(1)(2)(e)
69ZFAdjustment of benefit
Regulations may for the purpose of the recovery of amounts recoverable under section 69ZB make provision—
a
for treating any amount paid to a person under an award which it is subsequently determined was not payable—
i
as properly paid, or
ii
as paid on account of a payment which it is determined should be or should have been made,
and for reducing or withholding arrears payable by virtue of the subsequent determination;
b
for treating any amount paid to one person in respect of another as properly paid for any period for which it is not payable in cases where in consequence of a subsequent determination—
i
the other person is entitled to a payment for that period, or
ii
a third person is entitled in priority to the payee to a payment for that period in respect of the other person,
and by reducing or withholding any arrears payable for that period by virtue of the subsequent determination.
Pt. III (ss. 69-76) restricted (1.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11), arts. 1(4), 65