{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-pensions-and-social-security-act-2000/section-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-pensions-and-social-security-act-2000/section-71.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/19",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-pensions-and-social-security-act-2000",
  "path": "section/71",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Recovery of housing benefit.",
  "text": "For subsection (3) of section 75 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (overpayments of housing benefit) there shall be substituted—\n“(3) An amount recoverable under this section shall be recoverable—\n(a) except in such circumstances as may be prescribed, from the person to whom it was paid; and\n(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.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1992 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/19/section/71",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:56.319030+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}