{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/191",
  "legislation_title": "Optical Charges and Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Amounts wrongly paid",
  "text": "(1) Where a person who is not an eligible person declares on a voucher that he is an eligible person and in consequence the Agency makes a payment under these Regulations, the person who makes the declaration shall repay the amount of that payment to the Agency.\n(2) Where a supplier makes a claim for payment to the Agency, representing that the conditions specified in regulation 5(2), 13(2) or 18(2) are fulfilled, but those conditions are not fulfilled and the Agency makes a payment to the supplier under these Regulations, it may recover the amount of that payment from the supplier.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in operation at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/191/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:24.143933+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."
}