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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Published date: 1 April 1991

Social Welfare Act, 1991 (No. 7)

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, construction and collective citation.
In force
 2. Interpretation.
Part II Increases (ss. 3-16)
Repealed
 3. Social insurance benefits (new rates).
Repealed
 4. Social assistance payments (new rates).
Repealed
 5. Child benefit.
Repealed
 6. Definition of "qualified child".
Repealed
 7. Family income supplement.
Repealed
 8. Carer's allowance.
Repealed
 9. Payments after death.
Repealed
 10. Repeal.
Repealed
 11. Minimum payment of unemployment assistance.
Repealed
 12. Pay-related social insurance contributions (increase in earnings ceilings).
Repealed
 13. Increase in earnings ceiling and minimum contributions payable by self-employed contributors.
Repealed
 14. Self-employment contributions.
Repealed
 15. Voluntary contributions by self-employed contributors.
Repealed
 16. Pay-related benefit.
Part III Contribution Conditions for Short-Term Benefits (ss. 17-22)
Repealed
 17. Conditions for receipt of benefit.
Repealed
 18. Amendment of section 19 of Principal Act (conditions for receipt).
Repealed
 19. Amendment of section 30 of Principal Act (conditions for receipt).
Repealed
 20. Amendment of section 89 of Principal Act (conditions for receipt).
Repealed
 21. Standardisation of maternity provisions.
Repealed
 22. Insurability of outworkers and managers of employment offices.
Part IV Contribution Conditions for Pensions (ss. 23-27)
Repealed
 23. Conditions for receipt of old age (contributory) pension.
Repealed
 24. Conditions for receipt of retirement pension.
Repealed
 25. Consequential amendments arising from revised conditions for receipt of old age (contributory) and retirement pensions.
Repealed
 26. Power to remove difficulties.
Repealed
 27. Application of Part IV.
Part V Measures to Combat Abuse (ss. 28-38)
Repealed
 28. Information required by Minister.
Repealed
 29. Failure to keep records.
Repealed
 30. Offences.
Repealed
 31. Employers to keep copies of statements issued under Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act, 1973.
Repealed
 32. Amendment of section 20 of Act of 1988 (prosecutions).
Repealed
 33. Furnishing of information to Minister by personal representatives.
Repealed
 34. Amendment of section 169 of Principal Act (legal proceedings).
Repealed
 35. Revised decisions.
Repealed
 36. Employment contributions in a winding-up.
In force
 37. Amendment of section 285(2) of Companies Act, 1963.
Repealed
 38. Recovery of sums due to Social Insurance Fund.
Part VI Amalgamation of Separate Employer's Occupational Injuries and Redundancy Contributions with Employer's Social Insurance Contributions (ss. 39-40)
Repealed
 40. Amalgamation of employer's contribution in respect of occupational injuries with employer's social insurance contribution.
In force
 39. Amalgamation of employer's redundancy contribution with employer's social insurance contribution.
Part VII Miscellaneous (ss. 41-59)
Repealed
 42. Waiting days.
Repealed
 43. Overlapping provisions.
Repealed
 44. Recoupment of supplementary welfare allowance.
Repealed
 53. Notification of increase of means.
Repealed
 54. Budgeting in relation to social welfare payments.
Repealed
 51. Disregarding of means for certain recipients of unemployment assistance.
Repealed
 50. Entitlement to unemployment benefit and assistance.
Repealed
 49. Requalification for unemployment benefit.
Repealed
 48. Definition of "spouse".
Repealed
 47. Family income supplement (interpretation).
In force
 46. Disabled person's maintenance allowance.
Repealed
 41. Social assistance schemes, means test exemptions.
Repealed
 45. Calculation of supplementary welfare allowance.
Repealed
 55. Duration of payment of disability benefit.
Repealed
 52. Linking period in unemployment assistance claims.
Repealed
 59. Regulations in relation to benefit or assistance.
Repealed
 56. Assessment of means.
Repealed
 57. Sanction of Minister for Finance in relation to certain regulations.
Repealed
 58. Repeals.
Part VIII Amendments to Pensions Act (ss. 60-64)
In force
 60. Borrowing by Board.
In force
 64. Amendment of Third Schedule to Pensions Act.
In force
 63. Amendment of section 56 of Pensions Act.
In force
 62. Amendment of section 55 of Pensions Act.
In force
 61. Amendment of section 37 of Pensions Act.
Repealed
 Schedule A
Repealed
 Schedule B
In force
 Schedule C
Repealed
 Schedule D
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