Regulation 16 Recovery of amounts due as a civil debtI1
England and Wales
(1)
Where a sum must be repaid to a health body pursuant to regulation 15 and the reasons for the decision to require repayment is that theft, fraud or another offence may have occurred in connection with a direct payment, that sum may be recovered summarily as a civil debt.
(2)
Paragraph (1) does not affect any other method of recovery.