{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-2013/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-2013/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/384",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Employer to notify liable person of deduction",
  "text": "(1) An employer making a deduction from earnings for the purposes of these Regulations must notify the liable person in writing of the amount of the deduction including any amount deducted for administrative costs under regulation 20(9).\n(a) the amount of the deduction including any amount deducted for administrative costs under regulation 20(9); and\n(b) how that amount was calculated.\n(2) Such notification must be given or sent not later than the pay-day on which the deduction is made or, where that is impracticable, not later than the following pay-day.\n(3) An employer must, within 28 days of receiving a written request from the liable person, provide the liable person with an explanation in writing of how the first amount referred to in paragraph (1) was calculated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 21(1) substituted (6.4.2015) by The Social Security (Overpayments and Recovery) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/499), regs. 1, 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 21(3) added (6.4.2015) by The Social Security (Overpayments and Recovery) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/499), regs. 1, 6(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/384/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:38:14.832113+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."
}