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122 Recovery of charges.E+W+S

(1)All charges recoverable under this Act by the Secretary of State, a local social services authority, or any body constituted under this Act [F1or Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990], may, without prejudice to any other method of recovery, be recovered summarily as a civil debt.

(2)If any person, for the purpose of evading the payment of any charge under this Act, or of reducing the amount of any such charge—

(a)knowingly makes any false statement or false representation, or

(b)produces or furnishes, or causes or knowingly allows to be produced or furnished, any document or information which he knows to be false in a material particular,

the charge, or as the case may be the balance of the charge, may be recovered from him [F2as a simple contract debt] by the person by whom the cost of the service in question was defrayed.

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F2Words in s. 122(2) omitted (1.11.1999 for E. and otherwise prosp.) by virtue of 1999 c. 8, s. 65, 67(1), Sch. 4 para. 36; S.I. 1999/2793, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1; and repealed (9.2.2001) by 1999 c. 8, ss. 65, 67, Sch. 5; S.I. 2001/270, art. 2(c), Sch.

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