Section 10: Overpayment of allowances

10. Overpayment of allowances (1) Any person who, because of the non-disclosure or misrepresentation of a material fact (whether such non-disclosure or misrepresentation was or was not fraudulent), has received any sum by way of allowance which he was not entitled to receive shall be liable to repay the sum so received, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the determining authority that he received the sum in good faith and without knowledge that he was not entitled to it. (2) Where any person is liable to repay any sum received by way of allowance, the benefit authority may, without prejudice to any other powers of recovery and to section 25, direct the deduction of those sums, in such manner as the benefit authority may in its absolute discretion decide, from any sums to which that person may later become entitled by way of allowance.