6Liability to pay Secretary of State amount of benefits
(1)A person who makes a compensation payment in any case is liable to pay to the Secretary of State an amount equal to the total amount of the recoverable benefits.
(2)The liability referred to in subsection (1) arises immediately before the compensation payment or, if there is more than one, the first of them is made.
(3)No amount becomes payable under this section before the end of the period of 14 days following the day on which the liability arises.
(4)Subject to subsection (3), an amount becomes payable under this section at the end of the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which a certificate of recoverable benefits is first issued showing that the amount of recoverable benefit to which it relates has been or is likely to have been paid before a specified date.