{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/28",
  "legislation_title": "Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Reviews",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Minister—\n(a) makes a deduction from earnings order,\n(b) varies a deduction from earnings order, or\n(c) decides not to vary a deduction from earnings order in response to an application under section 46.\n(2) A liable person may apply to the Minister for a review of the decision to make, to vary or not to vary the order.\n(3) An application under subsection (2) must be made within the period of 28 days beginning with the day after the day on which the liable person was—\n(a) given a copy of the order or the order as varied, or\n(b) notified of the decision not to vary the order.\n(4) An application for a review under subsection (1) may not be brought on, or include, any ground relating to the existence or amount of a payable amount (unless the amount is said to be incorrectly stated in the order).\n(5) Where an application is made under this section, the Minister must review the decision in question.\n(6) On a review, the Minister may—\n(a) uphold the decision,\n(b) vary the order, or\n(c) revoke the order.\n(7) After a review has been carried out, the Minister must—\n(a) notify the liable person of the outcome of the review, and\n(b) if the outcome was to vary the order, give—\n(i) the varied order to the liable person’s employer, and\n(ii) a copy of the varied order to the liable person.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 49 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 109(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 49 in force at 1.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/371, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/28/section/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:27:04.329230+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."
}