The Private Water Supplies (Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

Cases in which grants may be re-calculated, withheld or repaid

11.—(1) A local authority may withhold, reduce or recover the whole or any part of a grant otherwise payable to an eligible person under these Regulations where—

(a) the approved works are not completed to the satisfaction of the local authority;

(b) before the approved works are completed, the person to whom the grant is payable ceases to be an eligible person; or

(c) the local authority believes that any information contained in an application made under regulation 4, or any information on which it based its decision to approve an application for a grant, was incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete.

(2) Before making any decision to withhold, reduce or recover any grant under paragraph (1), the local authority shall—

(a) give to the eligible person written notification of the action proposed to be taken and the reasons for it;

(b) afford that person an opportunity to make representations about the action proposed to be taken within such time and in such form as the authority thinks fit; and

(c) consider any such representations.