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Recovery of and contributions to supplementary welfare allowance.
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17.—(1) Where a health board grants supplementary welfare allowance to any person (in this section referred to as “the beneficiary”), every person who is liable to maintain the beneficiary shall be liable to contribute to the health board according to his ability to any allowance so granted.
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(2) Whenever a person who is liable to contribute to supplementary welfare allowance granted to the beneficiary fails or neglects to make such contribution, the health board concerned may apply to the District Court for an order directing the person liable to contribute to make such contribution to the allowance so granted.
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(3) Before making an application to the District Court pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, the health board concerned shall serve notice of the application on the person liable to contribute.
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(4) Whenever the District Court is satisfied that the person liable to contribute to a grant of supplementary welfare allowance to the beneficiary is, at the time of the hearing of an application by a health board pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, able to contribute to the allowance so granted, the District Court shall fix the amount of the contribution to be made by the person so liable and shall order the payment thereof to the health board either by way of a lump sum payment or by way of such weekly or monthly instalments as the Court shall think proper.
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(5) A health board shall not recover by means of an application under subsection (2) of this section in relation to supplementary welfare allowance granted to a person a greater amount than the allowance so granted together with the costs of the proceedings or, where a contribution has been made in pursuance of this section without any such application, a greater amount than the difference between such contribution and the allowance so granted together with the costs of the proceedings.
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