S.I. No. 193/1965:

SOCIAL WELFARE (CREDITING OF CONTRIBUTIONS) REGULATIONS, 1965.

SOCIAL WELFARE (CREDITING OF CONTRIBUTIONS) REGULATIONS, 1965.

I, CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 7 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1965 (No. 20 of 1965) hereby make the following Regulations :--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Crediting of Contributions) Regulations, 1965.

2. These Regulations shall come into force on the 6th day of September, 1965.

3. In these Regulations--

" the Act of 1952 " means the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952).

" the Act of 1965 " means the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1965 .

4.--(1) Where, on the commencement of sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 6 of the Act of 1965, an insured person becomes by virtue of that section an employed contributor and is a person who by virtue of paragraph 1 of Part II of the First Schedule to the Act of 1952 was not immediately before such commencement an employed contributor then, subject to sub-articles (2), (3) and (4) of this article, the insured person being a man shall be credited with employment contributions in respect of the period which commenced on the 6th day of January, 1964, and which ended on the 5th day of September, 1965, or being a woman shall be credited with employment contributions in respect of the period which commenced on the 1st day of July, 1963, and which ended on the 5th day of September, 1965.

(2) The contributions to be credited under sub-article (1) of this article shall not be reckonable for the purposes of widow's (contributory) pension or old age (contributory) pension.

(3) An insured person shall not be credited under sub-article (1) of this article with an employment contribution in respect of any contribution week for which an employment contribution, reckonable for the purposes of benefits including unemployment benefit, has been paid or credited in respect of him.

(4) Employment contributions shall not be credited under sub-article (1) of this article to an insured person who, on the commencement of sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 6 of the Act of 1965, is a person to whom article 5 of the Social Welfare (Modifications of Insurance) Regulations, 1956 ( S.I. No. 236 of 1956 ) applies.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 3rd day of September, 1965.

CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations provide for the crediting of employment contributions to persons who again become compulsorily insurable following the raising of the remuneration limit for insurance purposes from £800 to £1,200 a year. The credited contributions, which will reckon for all benefits except widows' (contributory) and old age (contributory) pensions, will be granted for a period sufficient to enable such persons to satisfy the statutory condition requiring them to have a specified number of employment contributions paid or credited in respect of them in the contribution year immediately prior to the current benefit year. As a consequence they will be able to qualify on 6th September, 1965, for benefits such as disability, unemployment and treatment benefit provided they satisfy the other statutory conditions governing title to such benefits.