{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1617",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Direct Payments) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Recovery of amounts due as a civil debt",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not affect any other method of recovery.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 1.8.2013, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1617/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:49:14.753528+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."
}