Amendment of the Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery Regulations
21.—(1) The Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)
(a)in the definition of “benefit” after the words “under section 32(2)(a) and 32(2A) of the Act” there shall be added the words “and any incapacity benefit under sections 30A(1) and (5) of the Contributions and Benefits Act”;
(b)after the definition of the Claims and Payments Regulations there shall be inserted the following definition—
““the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;”.
(3) In regulation 15(2) (recovery by deductions from prescribed benefits) after sub-paragraph (e) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph
“(f)any incapacity benefit.”.
(4) In regulation 16(8) (limitations on deductions from prescribed benefits), in the definition of specified benefit for the words “sickness or invalidity benefit” there shall be substituted the words “incapacity benefit”.