Schedule 3
Welfare Reform Bill
9:15 pm
‘5B (1) The Employment Tribunals Act 1996 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 16 (power to provide for recoupment of benefits)—
(a) in subsections (3)(a) and (c) and (5)(cc) and (e), for “or income support” substitute “, income support or income-related employment and support allowance”;
(b) in subsection (3)(b), for “either benefit” substitute “jobseeker’s allowance, income support or income-related employment and support allowance”;
(c) in subsection (4), for paragraph (b) substitute—
“(b) so as to apply to all or any of the benefits mentioned in subsection (3).”
(3) In section 17 (recoupment: further provisions), in subsection (1), for “or income support”, in both places, substitute “, income support or income-related employment and support allowance”.
(4) In that section, at the end insert—
“(5) In this section and section 16 “income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2006 (employment and support allowance).”’.
No. 104, in schedule 3, page 62, line 13, at end insert—