Interim payments, arrears and repayments

(1) Regulations shall provide for matters arising– (a) pending the determination under this Act, whether in the first instance or on appeal or on review, of any claim for a benefit or of any question affecting the right of any person to a benefit or to the receipt thereof; or (b) out of the revision or appeal or review of any decision of any such claim or question. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-section (1), regulations thereunder shall include provision– (a) for the suspension of a benefit where it appears to the Chief Executive Officer that there is or may be a question whether the conditions for the receipt thereof are or were fulfilled or whether the award ought to be revised; (b) as to the date from which any decision on review is to have effect; (c) for treating any benefit paid to any person which it is subsequently decided was not payable as properly paid, or as paid on account of any other benefit which it is decided was payable to him, or for the repayment of any such benefit; or 41 (d) for treating a benefit paid to a person in respect of a child as properly payable for any period notwithstanding that by reason of a subsequent decision another person is entitled to the benefit in respect of that child for that period, and for reducing or withholding accordingly any arrears payable for that period by virtue of that subsequent decision. Payment of