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Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 (No. 2)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and General (ss. 1-2)1. Short title, commencement and operation2. DefinitionPart 7 Covid-19: Temporary Wage Subsidy Provisions (ss. 28-28D)28. Covid-19: temporary wage subsidy provisions28A. Objectives of section 28B, purposes for which its provisions are enacted and certain duty of Minister for Finance respecting those provisions’ operation28B. Covid-19: employment wage subsidy scheme28C. Covid-19: special warehousing and interest (relevant tax due under section 28(9))28D. Covid-19: special warehousing and interest (relevant tax due under section 28B(11))Part 8 Amendment to Redundancy Payments Act 1967 (s. 29)29. Operation of section 12 - emergency period
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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 27 March 2020 - onwards

2. Definition

In this Act, "Covid-19" means a disease caused by infection with the virus SARS-CoV-2 and specified as an infectious disease in accordance with Regulation 6 of, and the Schedule to, the Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981 (S.I. No. 390 of 1981) or any variant of the disease so specified as an infectious disease in those Regulations.

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