S.I. No. 62/1979:

SOCIAL WELFARE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1978 (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1979.

SOCIAL WELFARE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1978 (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1979.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1978 (No. 25 of 1978), hereby orders as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1978 (Commencement) Order, 1979.

2. (1) In this article the expression "the Act of 1978" means the Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1978 .

(2) Sections 5(4), 16(2) and 20 of the Act of 1978 shall come into operation forthwith.

(3) The remaining provisions of the Act of 1978, other than section 4(2) in so far as it amends the definition of "benefit year" in section 2 (1) of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), shall come into operation on the 6th day of April, 1979.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this 27th

day of February, 1979.

CHARLES J. HAUGHEY,

Minister for Social Welfare.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing Order.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 27th day of February, 1979.

SEOIRSE Ó COLLA,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1978 (No. 25 of 1978) provides for a system of fully pay-related social insurance and occupational injuries insurance contributions. The system will commence on the 6th April, 1979 and this order brings the necessary provisions into operation from that date.

The order also provides for the immediate commencement of certain provisions in regard to the making of regulations for transitional arrangements and the confirmation or variation as required by the Act, of the rates of contribution and the earnings ceiling up to which contributions are to be paid.