Marginal note:Exception
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where any provincial or municipal authority in a province pays a person any advance, assistance or welfare payment for a period that would not be paid if an allowance had been paid for that period, and subsequently an allowance becomes payable or payment of an allowance may be made under this Act to that person for that period, the Minister may, in accordance with such terms and conditions as are prescribed by regulations made under section 25, deduct from that allowance and pay to the government of the province or to the municipal authority an amount not exceeding the amount of the advance, assistance or welfare payment paid, if that person had before receiving the advance, assistance or welfare payment from the government of the province or the municipal authority consented in writing to the deduction and payment.