{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-86",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-86.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1890",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/86",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "86",
  "heading": "Methods of recovery",
  "text": "Without prejudice to any other method of recovery, an authority may recover any recoverable overpayments from any person referred to in regulation 85 by deduction from any housing benefit to which that person is entitled, or where it is unable to do so, may request the Secretary of State to recover the overpayment from the benefits prescribed in regulation 89, in accordance with the provisions of that regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 86 in force at 1.4.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1890/regulation/86",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:44.151213+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."
}