{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/section-67",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/section-67.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2018/9",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018",
  "path": "section/67",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "67",
  "heading": "Exclusion of other rights of recovery",
  "text": "(1) An individual given assistance in error has no non-statutory obligation based on redress of unjustified enrichment to pay the value of that assistance to the Scottish Ministers.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) “non-statutory obligation” means an obligation that arises from a rule of law rather than an enactment,\n(b) the reference to assistance being given in error is to be construed in accordance with section 63(4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 67 in force at 22.10.2018 by S.S.I. 2018/298, reg. 2(1)(k) (with reg. 3) (as amended (10.12.2019) by S.S.I. 2019/406, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/9/section/67",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:13.200385+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."
}