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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-87",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1814",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/87",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Methods of recovery",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to any other method of recovery an appropriate authority may recover any recoverable excess benefit due from any person referred to in regulation 86 (person from whom recovery may be sought) by any of the methods specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) or any combination of those methods.\n(2) Excess benefit may be recovered either—\n(a) by payment by or on behalf of the person to whom regulation 86(1) refers, or\n(b) by an addition being made by the appropriate authority to any amount payable in respect of the council tax concerned.\n(3) Where recoverable excess benefit due from any person cannot be recovered by either of the methods specified in paragraph (2), the appropriate authority may request the Secretary of State to recover the outstanding excess from the benefits prescribed in regulation 91 in accordance with the provisions of that regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 87 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1605",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals and Discretionary Financial Assistance) (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2001 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1605",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals and Discretionary Financial Assistance) (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2001 (revoked)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1814/regulation/87",
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  },
  "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."
}