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Social Welfare Act, 1992 (No. 5)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart I Preliminary (ss. 1-2)1. Short title, construction and collective citation.2. Definitions.Part II Increases (ss. 3-9)3. Social insurance benefits (new rates).4. Social assistance payments (new rates).5. Invalidity pension (increase where pensioner has attained age of 80 years).6. Family income supplement (new weekly rates).7. Pay-related social insurance contributions (increase in earnings ceilings).8. Self-employment contributions (increase in earnings ceiling).9. Pay-related benefit.Part III Pension Schemes (ss. 10-18)10. Old age (contributory) pension (alternative method of determining yearly average).11. Retirement pension (alternative method of determining yearly average).12. Widow's (contributory) pension (extension of automatic entitlement).13. Proceeds derived from sale of pensioner's principal residence exempt from assessment of means.14. Living alone circumstances to be specified in regulations.15. Orphan's pension schemes.16. Increases for qualified children.17. Definition of "spouse" in relation to certain pensions.18. Amendment of Third Schedule to Principal Act (rules as to calculation of means).Part IV Maternity Allowance (s. 19)19. Maternity allowance.Part V Liability to Maintain Family (ss. 20-24)20. Amendment of section 314 of Principal Act.21. Amendment of section 316 of Principal Act.22. Insertion of sections 316A to 316J in Principal Act.23. Amendment of section 318 of Principal Act.24. Amendment of section 319 of Principal Act.Part VI Deserted Wife's Benefit (ss. 25-26)25. Deserted wife's benefit (title to benefit).26. Deserted wife's benefit (conditions for receipt)Part VII Unemployment Payment Schemes (ss. 27-31)27. Substitution for Chapter 2, Part III of Principal Act.28. Unemployment benefit (title to benefit).29. Amendment of section 35 of Principal Act (disqualification for unemployment benefit).30. Title to pay-related benefit.31. Unemployment benefit (period of disqualification).Part VIII Disability and Occupational Injury Benefit (ss. 32-35)35. Injury benefit (weekly rates).34. Discontinuance of pay-related benefit for periods of incapacity for work.33. Disability benefit (period of disqualification).32. Qualifying conditions for disability benefit.Part IX Miscellaneous (ss. 36-52)36. Carer's allowance.37. Integration of single woman's allowance scheme with preretirement allowance scheme.38. Amendment of section 44 of Principal Act.39. Family income supplement (regulations).40. Clarification of section 300(5)(aa) of Principal Act (revised decisions).41. Administration of social welfare schemes.42. Selection of panels of assessors to sit with appeals officers.43. Additional increases of lone parent's allowance to certain persons.44. Disqualification for entitlement to benefit where person is convicted of an offence.45. Increase of fine under section 227 of Principal Act.46. Recoupment of supplementary welfare allowance.47. Amendment of section 209 of Principal Act.48. Amendment of section 28 of Act of 1991 (information required by Minister).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).50. Family income supplement (treating claims as having been made on a date earlier than date of receipt of claim).51. Sanction of Minister for Finance in relation to certain regulations.52. Saving for certain instruments and documents.Part X Amendments to Pensions Act (ss. 53-63)55. Amendment of section 34 of Pensions Act.63. Amendment of Third Schedule to Pensions Act.53. Amendment of section 2 of Pensions Act.62. Amendment of section 71 of Pensions Act.61. Repeals.60. Amendment of section 62 of Pensions Act.59. Amendment of section 56 of Pensions Act.58. Amendment of section 55 of Pensions Act.57. Amendment of section 48 of Pensions Act.56. Amendment of section 46 of Pensions Act.54. Preserved benefit.Schedule ASchedule B
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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 5 April 1992 - onwards

58. Amendment of section 55 of Pensions Act.

Section 55 of the Pensions Act (as amended by section 62 of the Act of 1991) is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (1) of the following proviso:

"Provided that where the period selected by the trustees is altered, a report prepared for a period other than a year, such period not to exceed 23 months, shall, with the approval of the Board, be regarded as an annual report for the purposes of this section.".

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