# The National Health Service (Direct Payments) Regulations 2013, Regulation 16: Recovery of amounts due as a civil debt

Extent: E+W

(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1617/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-direct-payments-regulations-2013/regulation-16
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