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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Published date: 5 April 1992

Social Welfare Act, 1992 (No. 5)

Consolidation Status: Updated to reflect all known changes
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Introductory Text
Acts Referred to
Part I Preliminary (ss. 1-2)
In force
 1. Short title, construction and collective citation.
In force
 2. Definitions.
Part II Increases (ss. 3-9)
Repealed
 3. Social insurance benefits (new rates).
Repealed
 4. Social assistance payments (new rates).
Repealed
 5. Invalidity pension (increase where pensioner has attained age of 80 years).
Repealed
 6. Family income supplement (new weekly rates).
Repealed
 7. Pay-related social insurance contributions (increase in earnings ceilings).
Repealed
 8. Self-employment contributions (increase in earnings ceiling).
Repealed
 9. Pay-related benefit.
Part III Pension Schemes (ss. 10-18)
Repealed
 10. Old age (contributory) pension (alternative method of determining yearly average).
Repealed
 11. Retirement pension (alternative method of determining yearly average).
Repealed
 12. Widow's (contributory) pension (extension of automatic entitlement).
Repealed
 13. Proceeds derived from sale of pensioner's principal residence exempt from assessment of means.
Repealed
 14. Living alone circumstances to be specified in regulations.
Repealed
 15. Orphan's pension schemes.
Repealed
 16. Increases for qualified children.
Repealed
 17. Definition of "spouse" in relation to certain pensions.
Repealed
 18. Amendment of Third Schedule to Principal Act (rules as to calculation of means).
Part IV Maternity Allowance (s. 19)
Repealed
 19. Maternity allowance.
Part V Liability to Maintain Family (ss. 20-24)
Repealed
 20. Amendment of section 314 of Principal Act.
Repealed
 21. Amendment of section 316 of Principal Act.
Repealed
 22. Insertion of sections 316A to 316J in Principal Act.
Repealed
 23. Amendment of section 318 of Principal Act.
Repealed
 24. Amendment of section 319 of Principal Act.
Part VI Deserted Wife's Benefit (ss. 25-26)
Repealed
 25. Deserted wife's benefit (title to benefit).
Repealed
 26. Deserted wife's benefit (conditions for receipt)
Part VII Unemployment Payment Schemes (ss. 27-31)
Repealed
 27. Substitution for Chapter 2, Part III of Principal Act.
Repealed
 28. Unemployment benefit (title to benefit).
Repealed
 29. Amendment of section 35 of Principal Act (disqualification for unemployment benefit).
Repealed
 30. Title to pay-related benefit.
Repealed
 31. Unemployment benefit (period of disqualification).
Part VIII Disability and Occupational Injury Benefit (ss. 32-35)
Repealed
 35. Injury benefit (weekly rates).
Repealed
 34. Discontinuance of pay-related benefit for periods of incapacity for work.
Repealed
 33. Disability benefit (period of disqualification).
Repealed
 32. Qualifying conditions for disability benefit.
Part IX Miscellaneous (ss. 36-52)
Repealed
 36. Carer's allowance.
Repealed
 37. Integration of single woman's allowance scheme with preretirement allowance scheme.
Repealed
 38. Amendment of section 44 of Principal Act.
Repealed
 39. Family income supplement (regulations).
Repealed
 40. Clarification of section 300(5)(aa) of Principal Act (revised decisions).
Repealed
 41. Administration of social welfare schemes.
Repealed
 42. Selection of panels of assessors to sit with appeals officers.
Repealed
 43. Additional increases of lone parent's allowance to certain persons.
Repealed
 44. Disqualification for entitlement to benefit where person is convicted of an offence.
Repealed
 45. Increase of fine under section 227 of Principal Act.
Repealed
 46. Recoupment of supplementary welfare allowance.
Repealed
 47. Amendment of section 209 of Principal Act.
Repealed
 48. Amendment of section 28 of Act of 1991 (information required by Minister).
Repealed
 49. Amendment of section 4 of Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1985 (amounts of increases payable in respect of qualified child normally resident with beneficiary).
Repealed
 50. Family income supplement (treating claims as having been made on a date earlier than date of receipt of claim).
Repealed
 51. Sanction of Minister for Finance in relation to certain regulations.
Repealed
 52. Saving for certain instruments and documents.
Part X Amendments to Pensions Act (ss. 53-63)
In force
 55. Amendment of section 34 of Pensions Act.
In force
 63. Amendment of Third Schedule to Pensions Act.
In force
 53. Amendment of section 2 of Pensions Act.
In force
 62. Amendment of section 71 of Pensions Act.
In force
 61. Repeals.
In force
 60. Amendment of section 62 of Pensions Act.
In force
 59. Amendment of section 56 of Pensions Act.
In force
 58. Amendment of section 55 of Pensions Act.
In force
 57. Amendment of section 48 of Pensions Act.
In force
 56. Amendment of section 46 of Pensions Act.
In force
 54. Preserved benefit.
Repealed
 Schedule A
Repealed
 Schedule B
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