{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-act-1997/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-act-1997/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/27",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-act-1997",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Reference of questions to First-tier Tribunal.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must refer an appeal under section 11 to the First-tier Tribunal.\n(3) In determining any appeal under section 11, the tribunal must take into account any decision of a court relating to the same, or any similar, issue arising in connection with the accident, injury or disease in question.\n(4) On an appeal under section 11 the First-tier Tribunal may either—\n(a) confirm the amounts, rates and periods specified in the certificate of recoverable benefits, or\n(b) specify any variations which are to be made on the issue of a fresh certificate under subsection (5) or.\n(c) declare that the certificate of recoverable benefits is to be revoked.\n(5) When the Secretary of State has received the decision of the tribunal on the appeal under section 11, he must in accordance with that decision either—\n(a) confirm the certificate against which the appeal was brought, or\n(b) issue a fresh certificate or.\n(c) revoke the certificate.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) Regulations . . . may (among other things) provide for the non-disclosure of medical advice or medical evidence given or submitted following a reference under subsection (1).\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 12(1) substituted for s. 12(1)(2) (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1), Sch. 7 para. 151(1); S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(1) substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 140(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(3) substituted (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1), Sch. 7 para. 151(2); S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(4) substituted (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1), Sch. 7 para. 151(3)(a); S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(4) substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 140(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 12(4)(c) and preceding word inserted (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1), Sch. 7 para. 151(3)(b); S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(5) substituted (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1), Sch. 7 para. 151(4)(a); S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 12(5)(c) and preceding word inserted (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1), Sch. 7 para. 151(4)(b); S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 12(6) repealed (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1)(2), Sch. 7 para. 151(5)(a), Sch. 8; S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(7) repealed (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1)(2), Sch. 7 para. 151(5)(b), Sch. 8; S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "S. 12(8) repealed (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1)(2), Sch. 7 para. 151(5)(c), Sch. 8; S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in cross-heading substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 140(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 12 amended (25.11.1999) by S.I. 1999/3178, art. 4, Sch. 21 para. 7(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 10-14 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2008) by Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Lump Sum Payments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1596), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. 1 (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 wholly in force at 6.10.1997; s.12 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 34(2); s. 12(6)(7) in force for specified purposes at 3.9.1997 by S.I. 1997/2085, art. 2(1); s. 12 in force 6.10.1997 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 1997/2085, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/27/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:26:12.739105+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."
}