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Section 71 Recovery of housing benefit.I1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

For subsection (3) of section 75 of the M1Social Security Administration Act 1992 (overpayments of housing benefit) there shall be substituted—

“(3)

An amount recoverable under this section shall be recoverable—

(a)

except in such circumstances as may be prescribed, from the person to whom it was paid; and

(b)

where regulations so provide, from such other person (as well as, or instead of, the person to whom it was paid) as may be prescribed.”

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

1992 c. 5.

Commencement

I1

S. 71 wholly in force at 1.10.2001; s. 71 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 86(2); s. 71 in force for certain purposes at 1.11.2000 by S.I. 2000/2950, art. 3(b); s. 71in force at 1.10.2001 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 2001/2295, art. 2(d)