The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013

Amendment of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996

11.—(1) The Employment Tribunals Act 1996(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 16 (power to provide for recoupment of benefits) in the following provisions, before “jobseeker’s allowance” insert “universal credit,”—

(a) subsection (3)(a), (b) and (c); and

(b) subsection (5)(e).

(3) In section 16(5)(cc), before “a jobseeker’s allowance” insert “universal credit,”.

(4) In section 17 (recoupment: further provisions), in the introductory words in subsection (1) and in paragraph (b) of that subsection, before “jobseeker’s allowance” insert “universal credit,”.

(1)

1996 c.17. Section 16(5)(cc) was inserted by paragraph 147 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Act 1998. Sections 16(3)(a), (b) and (c) and (5)(cc) and (e) and 17(1) were amended by paragraph 15 of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007. Section 16(3)(b) and (c) and (5)(c) was amended by section 1 of the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998 (c.8).