{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-order-1998/article-8A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-order-1998/article-8A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/562",
  "legislation_title": "The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-order-1998",
  "path": "article/8A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": "Payment of subsidy before test or audit complete",
  "text": "(1) Where an authority has submitted the final claim by the due date in accordance with article 4(2)(c) but the claim has not yet been tested in accordance with article 5A or audited in accordance with article 6 and—\n(a) the Secretary of State estimates that the final subsidy will exceed the amount of interim subsidy that was paid to the authority in the relevant year, taking account of any withholding, reducing or deducting of subsidy by him, following the test or audit of that authority’s final claim, he may pay subsidy in accordance with paragraph (2); or\n(b) the Secretary of State estimates that the interim subsidy that was paid to the authority in the relevant year will exceed the amount of final subsidy, taking account of any withholding, reducing or deducting of subsidy by him, following the test or audit of that authority’s final claim, he may withhold or deduct subsidy in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(2) The amounts that may be paid to, withheld or deducted from an authority under paragraph (1) shall be equal to the amount which the Secretary of State estimates is likely to be payable by way of final subsidy, taking account of any withholding, reducing or deducting of subsidy by him, following the test or audit of that authority’s final claim.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 8A inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the commencing S.I.) by Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/54) , arts. 1(1) , 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 8A(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/985), arts. 1(1), 5(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 8A inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/985), arts. 1(1), 5(7)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/562/article/8A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:39:33.587469+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."
}