{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2003/schedule-7/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2003/schedule-7/paragraph-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/26",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the second sentence of section 80A(4) (overpaid Housing Revenue Account subsidy may be recovered by withholding or reducing subsidy) there is substituted—\n“(4A) Without prejudice to other methods of recovery, a sum recoverable under subsection (4) above may—\n(a) be recovered by withholding or reducing subsidy, and\n(b) if the sum is referable to housing benefit in respect of houses or other property within the authority’s Housing Revenue Account, be recovered by withholding or reducing rent rebate subsidy under Part 8 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 31 in force at 18.11.2003 by S.I. 2003/2938, art. 2(a) (with art. 8, Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/26/schedule/7/paragraph/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:07.059359+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."
}