S.I. No. 157/1956:

SOCIAL WELFARE (DISABILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND MARRIAGE BENEFIT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1956.

SOCIAL WELFARE (DISABILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND MARRIAGE BENEFIT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1956.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 3 and 28 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), hereby makes the following regulations :

1.--(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations, 1956.

(2) In these Regulations, " the Principal Regulations " means the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) Regulations, 1953 ( S.I. No. 7 of 1953 ).

(3) The Principal Regulations and these Regulations shall be construed as one and may be cited collectively as the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) Regulations, 1953 and 1956.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 5th day of July, 1956.

3. Article 4 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by--

(a) the substitution of the following for sub-article (2) :--

"(2) Where the full weekly rate of benefit under Part I of the Third Schedule to the Act is at either of the rates set out at the head of columns (2) and (3) of the First Schedule hereto, then benefit shall be payable at the reduced rate specified in the appropriate column of the said First Schedule which corresponds with the number of employment contributions paid or credited in respect of the relevant contribution year as shown in column (1) of the said First Schedule." and

(b) the insertion of " an adult dependant or " after " in respect of " in sub-article (3).

4. The following Schedules are hereby substituted for the First and Second Schedules respectively to the Principal Regulations :--

FIRST SCHEDULE

SHOWING REDUCED RATES OF DISABILITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT.

SECOND SCHEDULE

SHOWING REDUCED AMOUNTS OF MARRIAGE BENEFIT.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare, this 30th day of June, 1956.

BRENDAN CORISH,

Minister for Social Welfare.

The Minister for Finance hereby sanctions the foregoing Regulations.

Dated this 30th day of June, 1956.

GERARD SWEETMAN,

Minister for Finance.

Explanatory Note

These Regulations adjust the rates at which disability, unemployment and marriage benefit will be payable on and after the 5th July, 1956, in those cases in which the number of employment contributions paid or credited in respect of the relevant contribution year is less than 48 but not less than 26. The adjustment is consequential on the reduction from 50 to 48 of the number of paid or credited employment contributions required in respect of the relevant contribution year for payment of these benefits at full rates. The reduction was effected by the Social Welfare (Modification of Contribution Conditions for Benefit) Regulations, 1956, and will operate from and including the 5th July, 1956.