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6(1)Regulations under paragraph 1(1) above may provide that where a magistrates’ court has made a liability order against a person (“the debtor”) and the debtor is entitled to income support [F1or a jobseeker’s allowance]. . .—
(a)the authority concerned may apply to the Secretary of State asking him to deduct sums from any amounts payable to the debtor by way of [F2that benefit], in order to secure the payment of any outstanding sum which is or forms part of the amount in respect of which the liability order was made; and
(b)the Secretary of State may deduct such sums and pay them to the authority towards satisfaction of any such outstanding sum.
(2)The regulations may include—
(a)provision allowing or requiring adjudication as regards an application, and provision as to appeals and reviews;
(b)a scheme containing provision as to the circumstances and manner in which and times at which sums are to be deducted and paid, provision about the calculation of such sums (which may include provision to secure that amounts payable to the debtor by way of income support [F3or a jobseeker’s allowance]do not fall below prescribed figures), and provision as to the circumstances in which the Secretary of State is to cease making deductions;
(c)provision requiring the Secretary of State to notify the debtor, in a prescribed manner and at any prescribed time, of the total amount of sums deducted up to the time of the notification;
(d)provision that, where the whole amount to which the application relates has been paid, the authority shall give notice of that fact to the Secretary of State.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 4 para. 6(1) inserted (22.4.1996) by 1995 c. 18, s. 41(4), Sch. 2 para. 75(2)(a); S.I. 1996/1126, art. 2(a)(b)
F2Words in Sch. 4 para. 6(1)(a) substituted (22.4.1996) by 1995 c. 18, s. 41(4), Sch. 2 para. 75(2)(c); S.I. 1996/1126, art. 2(a)(b)
F3Words in Sch. 4 para. 6(2)(b) inserted (22.4.1996) by 1995 c. 18, s. 41(4), Sch. 2 para. 75(3); S.I. 1996/1126, art. 2
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