14. Crediting of cash grant or specified payment to Fund

The Board may after 1 June 1984 accept any cash grant made by the Government for the benefit of any person who qualifies for such grant under any approved scheme, and the Board must credit the cash grant into such account in the Fund of that person as the Minister may direct.

The Board may, in the circumstances approved by the Minister, credit the amount of a specified payment to be paid to a person into such account of that person in the Fund as the Minister may direct, instead of paying the specified payment directly to the person.

A cash grant or specified payment credited into a member’s account in the Fund under subsection (1) or (1A) (as the case may be) is deemed to be a contribution to the member for the purposes of this Act.

Any cash grant or specified payment credited into a member’s account in the Fund under subsection (1) or (1A) or interest thereon may be withdrawn by the member under this Act for the purposes of the cash grant or specified payment (as the case may be) and in such manner as the Board may determine.

Subject to any limitations prescribed by regulations made under section 77(1), in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (3AA), the Board is entitled to recover on behalf of the Government the following amounts from any moneys standing to the credit of any person in the Fund:

The Board is entitled to recover on behalf of the Government the whole or part of the amount of any cash grant or specified payment paid into the Fund under subsection (1) or (1A), as the case may be, for the benefit of any person, from any money standing to the credit of that person in the Fund before, on or after the expiry of the prescribed period mentioned in paragraph (b) if —

Where the Board has, before 1 January 2017, recovered any of the following amounts, the recovered amounts are taken to be and always to have been validly recovered and no legal proceedings lie or may be instituted or maintained in any court of law in respect of any such recovery:

Where the Board has recovered any amount from a person’s account in the Fund under subsection (3) or (3A), the Board may transfer, from the person’s account in the Fund to the general moneys of the Fund, the whole or such part, as the Board may determine, of any interest paid on the recovered amount while the recovered amount was in the person’s account in the Fund.

Any interest transferred to the general moneys of the Fund before 1 January 2017, which if transferred on or after that date would be permitted under subsection (3C), is taken to be and always to have been validly transferred, and no legal proceedings lie or may be instituted or maintained in any court of law in respect of any such transfer.

Any money recovered by the Board from any person under subsection (3) must be refunded forthwith to the Government.

Despite sections 20(1)(b) and (1A), 25 and 25A —

Subsections (3) to (3D) and (4A) apply despite any other provisions of this Act, but are without prejudice to any other right of action or remedy which the Board or the Government may have under any written law or rule of law.

In this section —