S.I. No. 71/1986:

HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS (YEARLY RECKONABLE INCOME) (VARIATION) REGULATIONS, 1986

HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS (YEARLY RECKONABLE INCOME) (VARIATION) REGULATIONS, 1986

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 sub-section (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, 1986.

2. The sum specified 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, 1986, to the sum of £14,000.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 24th

day of March, 1986.

BARRY DESMOND,

Minister for Health.

The Minister for Finance hereby sanctions the above Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this

24th day of March, 1986.

JOHN BRUTON,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

Section 9 (3) of the Health Contributions Act, 1979 , provides that the Minister for Health may by regulation vary the ceiling amount specified in sections 5 (2), 6 (2) and 8 of the Act. The present income ceiling is £13,000 and it is now varied by these regulations to £14,000. The changed income ceiling is operative from the beginning of the contribution year commencing on 6th April, 1986.