Part IIIN.I. Overpayments and Adjustments of Benefit

Misrepresentation etc.N.I.

[F169ZA Overpayments out of the social fund.N.I.

(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, section 69 above shall apply in relation to social fund payments to which this section applies as it applies in relation to payments made in respect of benefits to which that section applies.

(2)Section 69 above as it so applies shall have effect as if—

(a)in F2... subsection (5A), for the words “reversed or varied on an appeal or has been revised under Article 10 or superseded under Article 11” there were substituted the words “revised on a review under Article 38”;

F3(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)subsections (7) and (10A) were omitted.

[F4(2A)Subsection (9A) of section 69 as it so applies shall have effect as if the reference to amounts recoverable under the provisions mentioned in subsection (8) of that section were to amounts recoverable under subsections (1) and (4) of that section by virtue of subsection (1) above.]

(3)This section applies to social fund payments such as are mentioned in section 134(1)(b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act.]

Textual Amendments

F2Words in s. 69ZA(2)(a) repealed (29.6.2007) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2), s. 60(2)(d), Sch. 8

F4S. 69ZA(2A) inserted (2.5.2016 for specified purposes, 22.6.2016 otherwise except in relation to universal credit) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006), arts. 2(2), 110(2); S.R. 2016/215, arts. 2(6)(c), 3(3)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2S. 69ZA modified (1.7.1998) by S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10), arts. 1(3)(c)(d), 77, Sch. 5 para. 8