Superannuation Act 1972

7 E+W+S Provision for securing that where—

(a) the regulations provide for the payment to or in respect of a person of a pension in consequence of his having become incapacitated, or having died, as a result of an injury sustained, or disease contracted, in circumstances prescribed by the regulations; and

(b) any damages in respect of the injury, disease or death in consequence of which the pension is paid are recovered by or on behalf of the person to whom the pension is paid,

the amount of any payments made to that person in respect of the pension before the right to or amount of such damages is finally determined, or such part of those payments as may be determined in accordance with the regulations, may be recovered from that person in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as the regulations may provide.

In this paragraph “pension” includes allowance and gratuity.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 3 para. 7 modified (E.W.) (prosp.) by 1994 c. 29, ss. 82(5), 94(1) (which amending provision was repealed (19.6.1997) by 1997 c. 25, ss. 73(3), 74(1), Sch. 6 Pt. I (with Sch. 4 para. 27)) and (E.W.) (prosp.) by 1997 c. 25, ss. 50(5), 74(2)(3) (with Sch. 4 para. 27)