(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after section 232F (inserted by section 13 of the Social Welfare Act, 1984, and amended by section 39) of the following section:
"232G. Receipt of claims.
(1) Regulations may provide for treating a claim for family income supplement as having been made on a date earlier than the date on which it is received, where it appears to the Minister that the claimant would have satisfied the conditions for entitlement to family income supplement during that period, but for the receipt by that person of unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance.
(2) Where -
(a) in respect of any period any unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance has been paid to or in respect of a person who, though entitled to family income supplement by virtue of subsection (1), is not in receipt of such supplement, and
(b) such benefit or assistance is in excess of the amount which would have been granted to that person if he had been in receipt of fa