The National Health Service (Direct Payments) Regulations 2013

Recovery of amounts due as a civil debt

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16.—(1) Where a sum must be repaid to a health body pursuant to regulation 15 and the reasons for the decision to require repayment is that theft, fraud or another offence may have occurred in connection with a direct payment, that sum may be recovered summarily as a civil debt.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not affect any other method of recovery.