SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Provisions Supplementing Sections 15 to 17

PART IIFurther Provisions With Respect to Charging Schemes

Repayments and avoidance of over-payments

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If it appears to the Secretary of State that the contributions paid or to be paid under charging schemes made by him exceed or are likely to exceed the amount necessary for the purpose mentioned in section 16(1), he shall by order made by statutory instrument make such provision as appears to him necessary or expedient for—

a

terminating or reducing liabilities imposed by virtue of those schemes ; or

b

entitling authorities who have paid contributions imposed by virtue of those schemes to repayment of such proportion of those charges as may be determined by the Secretary of State;

and such an order may contain such supplementary and incidental provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient, including provision for modifying so much of any of those schemes as relates to the manner of payment of contributions payable under the scheme.