Regulation 29 Overpayments

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

reg. 29(b) substituted by Health and Social Care (Disciplinary Procedures) 2014 reg. 14
reg. 29(b) substituted by General Dental Services 2007 reg. 2(5)
reg. 29(b) text amened by General Dental Services 2008 reg. 2(3)
reg. 29 words omitted by Health and Social Care Act 2022 (General Dental and Ophthalmic Services Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) 2022 reg. 3(14)

Where the Agency considers that a payment has been made to a person owing to an error, or in circumstances where it was not due, it shall, except to the extent that the Department on the Agency's application directs otherwise, draw the overpayment to the attention of that person and—

(a)

where he admits the overpayment; or

(b)

where he does not admit the overpayment but the matter having been referred under regulation 4(2) of the Services Committee Regulations for investigation, the Agency, or the Department on appeal, decides that there has been an overpayment,

the overpayment shall be recoverable either by deduction from that person's remuneration or payments or in some other manner.