{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-northern-ireland-act-1992/section-144",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-northern-ireland-act-1992/section-144.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/8",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-northern-ireland-act-1992",
  "path": "section/144",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "144",
  "heading": "Destination of repayments, etc.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to Article 38 of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 , section 27 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 and to the following provisions of this section, so far as it relates to payments out of money appropriated by Measure, any sum recovered by the Department under or by virtue of this Act shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.\n(2) So far as any such sum relates to a payment out of the National Insurance Fund, it shall be paid into that Fund.\n(3) So far as any such sum relates to a payment out of the social fund, it shall be paid into that fund.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Any sums recovered by the Department under section 13A above. . . shall be paid—\n(a) into the Consolidated Fund to the extent that it estimates that those sums relate to payments out of money appropriated by Measure; and\n(b) into the National Insurance Fund to the extent that it estimates that they relate to payments out of that Fund.\n(7) Any sums received by the Department under regulations made by virtue of section 13A(2)(b) above shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.\n(7) Any sums repaid to the Department in pursuance of section 119(1) of the 1975 Act (which related to the effect of adjudication and was repealed subject to a saving in relation to certain reviews and appeals) shall—\n(a) be paid by it into the Consolidated Fund in so far as they represent benefit which under section 143 above is payable out of money appropriated for the purpose and not out of the National Insurance Fund; and\n(b) otherwise, be paid by it into that Fund.\n(8) All penalties recovered under section 109A or 109B above shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 144(1) inserted (7.10.1996) by S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15), art. 40(1), Sch. 2, para. 44; S.R. 1996/401, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 144(1) inserted (27.10.2008) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2), s. 60(1), Sch. 3 para. 4(22); S.R. 2008/276, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 144(4)(5) repealed (31.10.2016) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006), art. 2(2), Sch. 12 Pt. 6; S.R. 2016/234, art. 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 144(6) substituted(retrospectively) (11.6.1992) for specified purposes by S.I. 1992/1309 (N.I. 9), art. 3(2), Sch. para. 2(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 144(7) added(retrospectively) (11.6.1992) for specified purposes by S.I. 1992/1309 (N.I. 9), art. 3(2), Sch. para. 2(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 144(7) inserted at the end of s. 144(temp.)(1.7.1992) by Social Security (COnsequential Provisions)(Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9), ss. 6, 7(2), Sch. 4, Pt. I, paras. 1, 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 144(8) added (18.12.1997) by S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11), art. 19(1), Sch. 1 para. 5; S.R. 1997/508, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 144(8) inserted (1.5.2002) by 2001 c. 17 (N.I.), ss. 14(2), 17(1); S.R. 2002/165, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 144 modified (29.11.1999) by S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10), art. 33; S.R. 1999/472, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to art. 2(2) of the said S.R.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/8/section/144",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:21.000621+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."
}