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Social Welfare Act 2017 (No. 38)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and General (s. 1)1. Short title, construction, collective citation and commencementPart 2 Amendments to Social Welfare Acts (ss. 2-15)2. Definitions3. Amendment of definition of share-based remuneration4. Maternity benefit - new rate5. Adoptive benefit - new rate6. Paternity benefit - new rate7. Alteration in rates of jobseeker's benefit relating to certain reckonable weekly earnings8. Renaming of family income supplement9. Report on working family payment10. Working family payment - new weekly rates in certain circumstances11. Back to work family dividend - amendment12. Social insurance benefits - new rates13. One-parent family payment - weekly earnings disregard14. Social assistance payments - new rates15. Maternity benefit - premature birthPart 3 Amendments to other Acts (ss. 16-17)16. Amendment of Maternity Protection Act 199417. Amendment of section 4 of National Training Fund Act 2000Part 4 Miscellaneous Reports (ss. 18-19)18. Report on pension bands and rates19. Report on rent-a-room reliefSchedule 1 Renaming of Family Income SupplementSchedule 2 Social Insurance Benefits (new rates) - substitution of Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 2Schedule 3 Social Assistance Payments (new rates) - substitution of Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 4
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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: No known changes
Version date: 23 December 2017 - onwards

2. Definitions

In this Part -

"Act of 2016" means the Social Welfare Act 2016;

"Principal Act" means the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005.

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