{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-transitional-regulations-1987/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-transitional-regulations-1987/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1972",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Transitional) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-transitional-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Overpayments of rebate or allowance under an old scheme",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to any other method of recovery, an overpayment of rebate or allowance made to a person by an authority under an old scheme, which was recoverable under an old scheme by an authority, may be recovered by that authority by deduction from any housing benefit payable under the new scheme to any person from whom recovery may be sought under regulation 101 of the General Regulations (person from whom recovery may be sought) as though it were an overpayment of housing benefit under the new scheme.\n(2) Where on or before 30th June 1988 an authority becomes aware of an overpayment of a rebate or allowance under an old scheme in respect of a case where a qualifying certificate was in force at the time when the overpayment was made and that authority gives notice in writing to the Secretary of State on or before 30th September 1988 of that overpayment, regulation 48 of the Housing Benefits Regulations 1985 (recovery by the Secretary of State) shall have effect as if the reference in that regulation to an overpayment recoverable under regulation 47 were a reference to an overpayment recoverable under paragraph (1) and as if the benefits specified in paragraph (2) of regulation 48 included any benefit specified in regulation 105(1) of the General Regulations which is not excepted from that paragraph by paragraph (2) of that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1972/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:45.092577+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."
}