Procedure for payment of benefit
12.—(1) Benefits payable under these regulations shall be payable at intervals equivalent to those at which the corresponding benefits would have been payable under the relevant superannuation scheme, or at such other intervals as may be agreed between the person entitled to receive the benefits under these regulations and the authority that in accordance with regulation 13 pays those benefits.
(2) Subject to any statutory provision in that behalf, any benefits payable under these regulations shall be payable to, or in trust for, the person who is entitled to receive those benefits, and shall not be assignable.
(3) Without prejudice to any other right of recovery, any benefits under these regulations paid in error may be recovered by the new authority by deduction from any benefits properly so payable.