S.I. No. 324/1999 -- Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 7) (Unemployment Assistance, Preretirement Allowance and Farm Assist) Regulations, 1999.
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS. |
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S.I. No. 324 of 1999. |
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SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATED PAYMENTS PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 7) (UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE, PRERETIREMENT ALLOWANCE AND FARM ASSIST) REGULATIONS, 1999. |
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S.I. No. 324 of 1999. |
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SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATED PAYMENTS PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 7) (UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE, PRERETIREMENT ALLOWANCE AND FARM ASSIST) REGULATIONS, 1999. |
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The Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 4 (as amended by section 10 of the Social Welfare Act, 1998 ( No. 6 of 1998 )), 205 (as amended by sections 17 and 19 of section 35 of the Social Welfare Act, 1996 ( No. 7 of 1996 )), 207 (as amended by section 17 of the Social Welfare Act, 1999 ) and 209 (as amended by sections 17 and 19 of the Social Welfare Act, 1999 ) of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993 (No. 27 of 1993) and Rules 1(2)(a) (as amended by section 26 of the Social Welfare Act, 1997 ( No. 10 of 1997 )), Rule 1(2)(t) (as amended by section 26 of the Social Welfare Act, 1997 ), Rule 1(6) (as amended by section 22 of the Social Welfare Act, 1996 ), Rule 1(6A) (inserted by section 10 of the Social Welfare Act, 1998 ) and Rule 1(7) (inserted by section 22 of the Social Welfare Act, 1996 ) of Part I, Rule 1(4) (u) (as amended by section 26 of the Social Welfare Act, 1997 ) of Part II and Rules 1(2), 1(3)(r) and 1(5) of Part IV (inserted by section 16 of the Social Welfare Act, 1999 ) of the Third Schedule to the said Act hereby makes the following Regulations: |
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Citation and construction. |
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 7) (Unemployment Assistance and Farm Assist) Regulations, 1999. |
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(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations, 1994 to 1999 shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations, 1994 to 1999. |
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Interpretation. |
2. In these Regulations-- |
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“the Principal Regulations” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations, 1994 ( S.I. No. 417 of 1994 ); |
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“the Regulations of 1995” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations, 1995 ( S.I. No. 303 of 1995 ); |
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“the Regulations of 1996” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 7) (Unemployment Assistance) Regulations, 1996 ( S.I. No. 375 of 1996 )); |
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“the Regulations of 1997” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 8) Regulations, 1997 ( S.I. No. 436 of 1997 ); and |
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“the Regulations of 1998” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 8) (Miscellaneous) Regulations, 1998 ( S.I. No. 187 of 1998 ). |
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Assessment of property. |
3. The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by-- |
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(a) the substitution for article 87(1) (as amended by article 5 of the Regulations of 1997) of the following article: |
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(b) the substitution for article 87A (as amended by article (4) of the Regulations of 1995) of the following article: |
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Assessment of earnings-- unemployment assistance, pre-retirement allowance and farm assist. |
4. The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by-- |
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(a) the deletion of articles 89(3) and 89(4) (as amended by article 4(a) of the Regulations of 1996) and 89A (as amended by article 4 of the Regulations of 1998), and |
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(b) the insertion after article 89C (inserted by article 8 of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 10) (One-Parent Family Payment) Regulations, 1996 ( S.I. No. 426 of 1996 )) of the following articles: |
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Assessment of means -- compensation payments. |
5. The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by the substitution for article 90B (as amended by article 5 of the Regulations of 1998) of the following article: |
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“90B. The income prescribed for the purposes of Rule 1(2)(t) of Part I, Rule 1(4)(u) of Part II and Rule 1(3)(r) of Part IV of the Third Schedule to the Principal Act shall be the yearly value of all income derived from compensation awarded-- |
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(a) by the Compensation Tribunal established by the Minister for Health and Children on 15 December, 1995 or by a court of competent jurisdiction, to compensate certain persons who have contracted Hepatitis C from the use of Human Immunoglobulin -- Anti-D, whole blood or other blood products, or |
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(b) to persons who have disabilities caused by Thalidomide.” |
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Claims and payments. |
6. The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by:-- |
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(a) the substitution in article 102 for paragraph (b) of the following paragraph: |
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“(b) in the case of unemployment benefit, unemployment assistance, pre-retirement allowance, old age (non-contributory) pension, blind pension, carer's allowance and farm assist, the day in respect of which the claim is made,”, |
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(b) the substitution in article 110(1) for paragraph (a) of the following paragraph: |
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“(a) in the case of unemployment benefit, disability benefit, disability allowance, unemployment assistance, farm assist and continued payment for qualified children on such days and at such intervals as the Minister may determine in any particular class of case,”, |
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(c) the insertion in article 116(1) after paragraph (j) of the following paragraph: |
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“(jj) in respect of farm assist-- |
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(i) where the weekly rate payable is a scheduled rate, so much of the allowance as is payable by virtue of sections 191N(1)(a) and 191N(1)(b); |
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(ii) where the weekly rate payable is less by reason of means than the applicable scheduled rate, so much of the allowance as is payable by virtue of sections 191N(1)(a) and 191N(1)(b), reduced in the proportion that the weekly rate actually payable bears to the applicable scheduled rate,”, |
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(d) the insertion in article 117 after paragraph (h) of the following paragraph: |
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“(hh) in respect of farm assist-- |
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(i) where the weekly rate payable is a scheduled rate, so much of the allowance as is payable under section 191N(1)(b) together with one half of the aggregate sum of the appropriate rate of farm assist as set out in column (2) of Part I of the Fourth Schedule to the Principal Act and the increase in the allowance payable by virtue of section 191N(1) (a), |
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(ii) where the weekly rate payable is less by reason of means than the applicable scheduled rate, so much of the allowance as is payable by virtue of section 191N(1)(b) together with one half of the aggregate of-- |
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(A) the appropriate rate of farm assist as set out in column (2) of Part I of the Fourth Schedule to the Principal Act, and |
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(B) the increase in the allowance payable by virtue of section 191N(1)(a), |
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reduced in the proportion that the weekly rate actually payable bears to the applicable scheduled rate, and”, |
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(e) the substitution in paragraph (h)(ii) of article 117 for “scheduled rate, and” of “scheduled rate,”, and |
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(f) the substitution in article 128(2) (as amended by article 7 of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations, 1996 ( S.I. No. 297 of 1996 )) for paragraph (b) of the following paragraph: |
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“(b) any assistance other than unemployment assistance, pre-retirement allowance, old age (non-contributory) pension, carer's allowance, disability allowance or farm assist.”. |
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The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing Regulations. |
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EXPLANATORY NOTE. |
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(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.) |
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These Regulations: |
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(i) prescribe the method of assessment of earnings from insurable employment for the purposes of determining entitlement to Farm Assist; |
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(ii) amend existing provisions relating to assessment of earnings from insurable employment for the purposes of Unemployment Assistance by specifying deductions allowable from gross earnings; |
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(iii) outline the method of assessment of a spouse's earnings from insurable employment for the purposes of Farm Assist and Unemployment Assistance and Pre-Retirement Allowance; |
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and |
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(iv) extend the existing claim, payment and overlapping benefit provisions to Farm Assist. |