{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-1987/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/491",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-payments-on-account-overpayments-and-recovery-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Bringing interim payments into account",
  "text": "Where it is practicable to do so and notice has been given as required by regulation 2(2), the interim payment shall be brought into account as follows:—\n(a) any interim payment made in anticipation of an award of benefit shall be offset by the adjudicating authority in reduction of the benefit to be awarded; and\n(b) any interim payment (whether or not made in anticipation of an award) which is not offset under sub-paragraph (a) shall be deducted by the Secretary of State from—\n(i) the sum payable under the award of benefit on account of which the interim payment was made; or\n(ii) any sum payable under any subsequent award of the same benefit to the same person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/491/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:29:18.490674+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."
}