S.I. No. 88/1980:

HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS (YEARLY RECKONABLE INCOME) (VARIATION) REGULATIONS, 1980.

HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS (YEARLY RECKONABLE INCOME) (VARIATION) REGULATIONS, 1980.

The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (3) of section 9 of the Health Contributions Act, 1979 (No. 4 of 1979) hereby makes the following Regulations as respects which, pursuant to subsection (5) of the said section, a draft has been approved by a resolution of each House of the Oireachtas.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health Contributions (Yearly Reckonable Income) (Variation) Regulations, 1980.

2. The sum of £5,500 inserted by the Health Contributions (Rate of Contribution and Yearly Reckonable Income) (Confirmation and Variation) Regulations, 1979, in sections 5 (2), 6 (2) and 8 of the Health Contributions Act, 1979 , is hereby varied with effect from the 6th day of April, 1980, by the substitution therefor of a sum of £7,000.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 28th day of March, 1980.

MICHAEL WOODS,

Minister for Health.

The Minister for Finance hereby sanctions the above Regulations.

Dated this 28th day of March, 1980.

MICHAEL O'KENNEDY,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

Section 9 (3) of the Health Contributions Act, 1979 , provides that the Minister for Health may by regulations vary the ceiling amount specified in sections 5 (2), 6 (2) and 8 of the Act. The present income ceiling is £5,500 and it is proposed that it should be varied to £7,000. The changed income ceiling would operate from the beginning of the next contribution year which commences on 6 April, 1980.