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Repayment of benefit, assistance, etc. overpaid.
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[1993, s. 31(1)]
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279.—Where, in any case, other than a case involving a revised decision or determination in accordance with sections 249, 264 or 269, a person has been—
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(a) in receipt of any benefit, assistance, child benefit or family income supplement for any period during which that person was not entitled thereto, or
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(b) in receipt of such benefit, assistance, child benefit or supplement at a rate higher than that to which he was entitled,
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then that person and any other person to whom such benefit, assistance, child benefit or supplement was paid on behalf of such person, or the personal representative of such person, shall be liable to pay—
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(i) to the Social Insurance Fund, in the case of benefit,
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(ii) to the Minister, in the case of assistance (other than supplementary welfare allowance), child benefit or family income supplement, and
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(iii) to the health board, in the case of supplementary welfare allowance,
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on demand any sums paid to that person in respect of the said benefit, assistance, child benefit or supplement during such period or, as the case may be, a sum representing the difference between such benefit, assistance, child benefit or supplement at the rate actually paid and benefit, assistance, child benefit or supplement at the rate to which he was entitled.
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