Children’s Special Allowances Act

Marginal note:Return of special allowance

• 9 (1) Any person, department, agency, institution or Indigenous governing body that has received or obtained by cheque or otherwise payment of a special allowance under this Act to which the person, department, agency, institution or Indigenous governing body is not entitled, or payment in excess of the amount to which the person, department, agency, institution or Indigenous governing body is entitled, shall, as soon as possible, return the cheque or the amount of the payment, or the excess amount, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Recovery of amount of payment

  (2) Where a person, department, agency, institution or Indigenous governing body has received or obtained payment of a special allowance under this Act to which the person, department, agency, institution or Indigenous governing body is not entitled, or payment in excess of the amount to which the person, department, agency, institution or Indigenous governing body is entitled, the amount of the special allowance or the amount of the excess, as the case may be, constitutes a debt due to Her Majesty.

• Marginal note:Deduction from subsequent special allowance

  (3) Where any person, department, agency, institution or Indigenous governing body has received or obtained payment of a special allowance under this Act to which the person, department, agency, institution or Indigenous governing body is not entitled, or payment in excess of the amount to which the person, department, agency, institution or Indigenous governing body is entitled, the amount of the special allowance or the amount of the excess, as the case may be, may be deducted and retained in such manner as is prescribed out of any special allowance to which the person, department, agency, institution or Indigenous governing body is or subsequently becomes entitled under this Act.