Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997
Introductory
1 Cases in which this Act applies.
1ALump sum payments: regulation-making power
2 Compensation payments to which this Act applies.
3“The relevant period”.
Certificates of recoverable benefits
4 Applications for certificates of recoverable benefits.
5 Information contained in certificates.
Liability of person paying compensation
6 Liability to pay Secretary of State amount of benefits.
7 Recovery of payments due under section 6.
Reduction of compensation payment
8 Reduction of compensation payment.
8AReduction of payment under Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme
9 Section 8: supplementary.
Reviews and appeals
10 Review of certificates of recoverable benefits.
11 Appeals against certificates of recoverable benefits.
12 Reference of questions to First-tier Tribunal.
13 Appeal to Upper Tribunal.
14 Reviews and appeals: supplementary.
Courts
15 Court orders.
16 Payments into court.
17 Benefits irrelevant to assessment of damages.
Reduction of compensation: complex cases
18 Lump sum and periodical payments.
19 Payments by more than one person.
Miscellaneous
20 Amounts overpaid under section 6.
21 Compensation payments to be disregarded.
22 Liability of insurers.
23 Provision of information.
24 Power to amend Schedule 2.
Provisions relating to Northern Ireland
25 Corresponding provision for Northern Ireland.
26 Residence of the injured person.
27 Jurisdiction of courts.
General
28 The Crown.
29 General interpretation.
30 Regulations and orders.
31 Financial arrangements.
32 Power to make transitional, consequential etc. provisions.
33 Consequential amendments and repeals.
34 Short title, commencement and extent.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Compensation payments
Part I Exempted payments
1Any small payment (defined in Part II of this Schedule)....
2Any payment made to or for the injured person under...
3Any payment made in the exercise of a discretion out...
4Any payment made out of property held for the purposes...
5(1) Any payment made to the injured person by an...
6Any redundancy payment falling to be taken into account in...
7So much of any payment as is referable to costs....
8Any prescribed payment.
Part II Power to disregard small payments
9(1) Regulations may make provision for compensation payments to be...
SCHEDULE 2 Calculation of compensation payment
1 NOTES
2Any reference to statutory sick pay— (a) includes only 80...
3In this Schedule “the 1992 Act” means the Social Security...
SCHEDULE 3 Consequential amendments
Law Reform (Personal Injuries) Act 1948 (c. 41)
1In section 2 of the Law Reform (Personal Injuries) Act...
Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
2The Social Security Administration Act 1992 is amended as follows....
3Part IV is omitted.
4 Consequential amendments
5In section 125(1) (regulations as to notification of deaths), after...
6In section 163 (general financial arrangements), subsections (1)(e) and (2)(i)...
7In section 164(6) (destination of repayments), the words from “or...
8In section 170(5) (the Social Security Advisory Committee)—
9In section 180 (payment of travelling expenses by the Secretary...
10In section 189(8) (Treasury approval to regulations and orders), the...
11In section 190 (parliamentary control of orders and regulations), in...
12In section 191 (interpretation), the definitions of “compensation payment” and...
13In section 192(5) (extent), “section 101” is omitted.
SCHEDULE 4 Repeals

Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997

1997 c. 27

An Act to re-state, with amendments, Part IV of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.

C1Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—C3C2

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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Act modified (8.9.1998) by 1998 c. 14, s. 2(1)(2)(h); S.I. 1998/2209, art. 2(a)-(c), Sch. 1 Pt. I

Act: power to modify conferred (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 11(1)(3); S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)

Act: power to amend conferred (2.12.1999) by 1998 c. 47, ss. 87; S.I. 1999/3209, art. 2, Sch.

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Act applied (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/875), regs. 1(2), 16, Sch. 2 (which amending S.I. was revoked (27.8.2010) by SI 2010/1906, reg. 2)