New South Wales Consolidated Acts

UNCLAIMED MONEY ACT 1995 - SECT 26A

26A Recovery of money wrongly paid

(1) If money is paid under this Part to a person who is not the owner of the money, the Chief Commissioner is entitled to recover the money from the person to whom it was paid (unless prevented from doing so by operation of the Limitation Act 1969 .)

(2) The Chief Commissioner is to pay money recovered under this section into the Consolidated Fund.