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Recovery of overpayments.
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9.—(1) If it is found at any time that a person has been in receipt of special benefit while the statutory conditions were not fulfilled in his case, he shall be liable to repay to the Minister any sums paid to him in respect of special benefit while the statutory conditions were not fulfilled.
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(2) The Minister may recover from any person as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction any sums which that persion is liable to repay to the Minister under subsection (1) of this section.
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(3) (a) Where any person is liable under subsection (1) of this section to repay to the Minister any sum received by him by way of special benefit and does not show that such sum was received by him in good faith and without knowledge that he was not entitled thereto, then, such sum may, without prejudice to any other mode of recovery, be recovered by means of deductions from any special benefit to which such person is or thereafter becomes entitled.
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(b) Section 11 of the Act of 1920 shall apply to every question arising under paragraph (a) of this subsection.
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(4) Any moneys repaid to, or recovered by, the Minister under this section shall be applied by him as if those moneys were moneys transferred to him from the British Unemployment Fund.
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