P ART 7 R ECOVERY FROM COMPENSATION PAYMENTS 17 Recovery of value of assistance from compensation payments 20 (1) The 2018 Act is modified as follows. (2) After section 94 insert— “P ART 6A R ECOVERY FROM COMPENSATION PAYMENTS Introductory 25 94A Application of this Part (1) This Part applies where— (a) a person is to make a payment (whether on that person’s own behalf or not) to or in respect of an individual in consequence of any accident, injury or disease suffered by that individual, 30 (b) relevant assistance has been, or is likely to be, received by or for that individual during the relevant period in respect of the accident, injury or disease, and (c) the relevant period start date occurs on or after the day on which section 17(2) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2024 comes 35 into force. (2) The reference in subsection (1)(a) to a payment to be made in consequence of any accident, injury or disease is to a payment to be made— (a) by or on behalf of a person who is, or is alleged to be, liable to any extent in respect of the accident, injury or disease, 40 (b) under a compensation scheme for motor accidents, or 29 Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill Part 7—Recovery from compensation payments (c) under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (established under the Mesothelioma Act 2014), but does not include a payment mentioned in Part 1 of schedule 12. (3) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations modify Part 1 of schedule 12 so 5 as to— (a) add a payment, (b) remove a payment, (c) vary the description of a payment. (4) The reference in subsection (1)(a) to a payment to be made in consequence 10 of any accident, injury or disease includes a payment to be made— 1 (a) voluntarily, or under a court order or an agreement, or otherwise, (b) in Scotland or elsewhere. (5) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision about the recovery of the amounts of payments made under schemes providing for compensation 15 in the form of a lump sum payment to or in respect of an individual in consequence of any accident, injury or disease suffered by that individual, where a compensation payment in respect of the same accident, injury or disease has been paid to or in respect of that individual. (6) Regulations under subsection (5)— 20 (a) must specify the lump sum payments to which they apply, (b) may in particular— (i) modify the heads of compensation set out in column 1 of the table in Part 2 of schedule 12 as they apply to the recovery of such payments, 25 (ii) make provision for the recovery of the amount of such a payment made to or in respect of another person as a result of their having a prescribed relationship with the injured person, (iii) make provision for the recovery of the amount of such a payment from a compensation payment (including for the recovery of an 30 amount which reduces the compensation payment to nil), (iv) make provision about certificates of recoverable assistance in relation to such payments, (v...