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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Published date: 31 March 1994

Social Welfare Act, 1994 (No. 4)

Consolidation Status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Comparing proposed amendment...
Introductory Text
Acts Referred to
Part I Preliminary (ss. 1-2)
In force
 1. Short title and construction.
Repealed
 2. Definition.
Part II Increases (ss. 3-6)
Repealed
 3. Social insurance benefits (new rates).
Repealed
 4. Social assistance payments (new rates).
Repealed
 5. Child benefit (new rates).
Repealed
 6. Family income supplement (new weekly rates).
Part III Social Insurance Contributions (ss. 7-10)
Repealed
 7. Employment contributions (new rates of contributions and increases in earnings ceilings).
Repealed
 8. Self-employment contributions (increase in earnings ceiling).
Repealed
 9. Voluntary contributions by former self-employed contributors.
Repealed
 10. Exemption from payment of contributions.
Part IV Survivors Pension (ss. 11-14)
Repealed
 11. Survivors pension.
Repealed
 12. Transitional provisions.
Repealed
 13. Repeals, etc.
Repealed
 14. Commencement (Part IV).
Part V Amendments to Existing Schemes (ss. 15-25)
Repealed
 15. Lone parents allowance (calculation of means).
Repealed
 16. Carers allowance (rate of allowance and calculation of means).
Repealed
 17. Maternity benefit.
Repealed
 18. Amendment of Third Schedule to Principal Act (rules as to calculation of means).
Repealed
 19. Unemployment benefit (entitlement to benefit).
Repealed
 20. Occupational injuries benefits (integration of injury benefit and unemployability supplement with disability benefit).
Repealed
 21. Amendment of Chapter 11 of Part II of Principal Act (pay-related benefit).
Repealed
 22. Unemployment assistance (minimum payment for certain claimants).
Repealed
 23. Amendment of section 170 of Principal Act (definition of child dependant).
Repealed
 24. Amendment of section 172 of Principal Act (persons in full-time education).
Repealed
 25. Amendment of section 173 of Principal Act (persons in full-time employment).
Part VI Miscellaneous (ss. 26-33)
Repealed
 26. Payments after death.
Repealed
 27. Pre-retirement allowance.
Repealed
 28. Social welfare inspectors.
Repealed
 29. Failure to keep records.
Repealed
 30. Unemployment assistance and supplementary welfare allowance (calculation of rates of payments).
Repealed
 31. Occupational injuries insurance.
Repealed
 32. Amendments consequential on section 3.
Repealed
 33. Provision of consultancy, training and contract services, etc.
Part VII Amendment of Health Contributions Act, 1979 and Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981 (ss. 34-35)
In force
 34. Amendment of Health Contributions Act, 1979.
In force
 35. Amendment of Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981.
Repealed
 Schedule A
Repealed
 Schedule B
Repealed
 Schedule C
Repealed
 Schedule D
Repealed
 Schedule E
Repealed
 Schedule F
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