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RATES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977 - SECT 28

28.(1) The Department shall by order subject to affirmative resolution make a
scheme for the grant, by the Department to persons specified in the scheme, of
rebates from rates calculated in accordance with the provisions of the scheme
by reference to their needs and their resources.

(2) Without prejudice to any other right to recover the amount of any relief
by way of rebate under this Article which has been wrongly afforded, where any
person convicted of an offence under the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 has
as a result of that offence been afforded such relief to which he was not
entitled, the amount of that relief may be recovered by the Department
summarily as a debt; and, notwithstanding section 72(1) of the Magistrates'
Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 (debt proceedings to be commenced within
six years) or any other transferred provision, proceedings for the recovery of
a consecutive series of amounts by way of such relief may be brought within
twelve months from the date on which the last amount of the series was
afforded.

[(3) Subject to Article 16(4) and (5) of the Supplementary Benefits (Northern
Ireland) Order 1977 (appeal against determination of benefit officer), where,
in determining the amount of any benefit under that Order the requirements of
any person have been taken into account for the whole or part of a year in
respect of which rate rebate under this Article might be afforded to him, and,
before the whole or part of it has been afforded, the Department is notified
by a benefit officer (within the meaning of that Order) of the amount by which
the amounts paid under that Order exceed what the benefit officer has
determined they would have been had the rebate been afforded before the amount
of the benefit was determined, the amount of the rebate to be afforded shall
be reduced by the amount so notified.]

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