Section 71 Overlapping benefits - general.

Regulations may provide for adjusting F1state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 or benefit as defined in section 121 of the Contributions and Benefits Act F2, or a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance F3or a contributory employment and support allowance , which is payable to or in respect of any person, or the conditions for F4receipt of that benefit, where—

Subsection (1)(a) above applies to any pension, allowance or benefit payable out of public funds (including any other benefit as so defined, whether it is of the same or a different description) which is payable to or in respect of—

Where but for regulations made by virtue of subsection (1)(a) above two persons would both be entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of a third person, regulations may make provision as to their priority.

Regulations may provide for adjusting—

payable to or in respect of any person where there is payable in his case any such benefit as is described in subsection (5) below.

Subsection (4) above applies to any benefit payable under the legislation of any F12member State which is payable to or in respect of—

Personal independence payment is to be treated for the purposes of this section as if it were benefit as defined in section 121 of the Contributions and Benefits Act.