SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Recovery of benefits etc from payments and recovery of payments

Part 2Recovery of scheme payments from compensation

Recovery of scheme payments from compensation: Northern Ireland

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1

Article 3A of the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1183 (N.I. 12)) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph (2)—

a

omit the word “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (b), and

b

at the end of sub-paragraph (c) insert

, and

d

a payment under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (established under the Mesothelioma Act 2014),

(but this paragraph does not apply to a payment within sub-paragraph (d) in a case where the compensation payment is itself such a payment).

3

In paragraph (4)(a) for the words from “by or” to “extent” substitute “ as specified in Article 3(2)(a) or (c) ”.