SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1U.K.Recovery of benefits etc from payments and recovery of payments

Part 2 U.K.Recovery of scheme payments from compensation

Recovery of scheme payments from compensation: Northern IrelandU.K.

18(1)Article 3A of the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1183 (N.I. 12)) is amended as follows.U.K.

(2)In paragraph (2)—

(a)omit the word “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (b), and

(b)at the end of sub-paragraph (c) insert “, and

(d)a payment under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (established under the Mesothelioma Act 2014),

(but this paragraph does not apply to a payment within sub-paragraph (d) in a case where the compensation payment is itself such a payment). ”

(3)In paragraph (4)(a) for the words from “by or” to “extent” substitute “ as specified in Article 3(2)(a) or (c) ”.