S.I. No. 175/1965 - Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) Regulations, 1965.

S.I. No. 175 of 1965.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES (MAINTENANCE) REGULATIONS, 1965.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers vested in him by section 5 and by subsection (5) of section 44 of the Health Act, 1947 (No. 28 of 1947), hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) Regulations, 1965.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1965.

3. The Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) Regulations, 1964 ( S.I. No. 193 of 1964 ) are hereby revoked.

4. In these Regulations—

"the Act" means the Health Act, 1947 (No. 28 of 1947);

"outgoings" means the rent, ground rent, rates and purchase annuity payable in respect of premises and mortgage repayments relating to the purchase of premises;

"receiving institutional services" means receiving institutional services from a health authority or purusant to an agreement made by a health authority under section 10 of the Health Act, 1953 (No. 26 of 1953);

"person" means a person to whom section 44 of the Act applies by virtue of subsection (1) of that section, and

"the payment" means the payment to be made by a health authority under subsection (3) of section 44 of the Act to or in respect of a person or his dependants.

5.—(1) The payment shall be a weekly payment not exceeding—

(a) the sum specified in Part One of the Schedule hereto which is appropriate to the person and

(b) such of the increases specified in Part Two of the said Schedule as are appropriate.

(2) Where a married woman whose husband is unable to make proper provision for the care of their family is undergoing treatment for an infectious disease to the satisfaction of the chief medical officer of the health authority in whose functional area she resides and where with the approval of the health authority a woman is employed to take care of such family, the payment shall not exceed twenty-two shillings where such married woman is ordinarily resident in a county borough or seventeen shillings where she is ordinarily resident elsewhere.

SCHEDULE.

PART ONE

Class of Person	Rates of Payments
Where the person is ordinarily resident in a county borough			Where the person is ordinarily resident elsewhere than in a county borough
	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
1. (a) For a male person with a dependent wife or a female person with a dependent husband	4	13	0	4	8	0
(b) For a male person with a dependent wife or a female person with a dependent husband where such person or such dependent wife or husband is receiving institutional services	3	8	0	3	6	0
(c) For a male person with a dependent wife or a female person with a dependent husband where both husband and wife are receiving institutional services	1	19	0	1	19	0
2. (a) For a single person or a person who is a widow or widower with a dependant aged 16 years or over	2	17	0	2	14	0
(b) For such person where such person is receiving institutional services	1	12	0	1	12	0
3. (a) For a single person or a person who is a widow or widower without a dependant aged 16 years or over	2	4	6	2	1	6
(b) For such person where such person is receiving institutional services		19	6		19	6

SCHEDULE.

PART TWO.

Circumstances in which the sum specified in Part One of this Schedule may be increased	Amount of Increase
Where the person is ordinarily resident in a county borough			Where the person is ordinarily resident elsewhere than in a county borough
	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
1. (a) For a single person or a person who is a widow or widower or a female person with a dependent husband where such person has one or more dependants (other than such husband) and where, with the approval of the health authority, a female person is employed to take care of such dependant or dependants.	1	2	0		17	0
	or			or
the actual wage payable to the person employed whichever is the lesser.			the actual wage payable to the person employed whichever is the lesser.
(b) For a male person with a dependent wife where such person has one or more dependants (other than such wife) and his wife is receivinginstitutional services and, with the approval of the health authority, a female person is employed to take care of such dependents.	1	2	0		17	0
	or			or
the actual wage payable to the person employed whichever is the lesser.			the actual wage payable to the person employed whichever is the lesser.
2. For each dependant (other than a wife or husband) aged—
(a) 16 years and over		12	0		10	0
(b) under 16 years
(i) being the first dependant under such age		10	0		10	0
(ii) being the second dependant under such age		10	0		10	0
(iii) being the third or a subsequent dependant under such age		8	0		6	0
3. For a person who is owner or tenant of the premises in which he ordinarily resides or who not being the owner or tenant pays or contributes substantially towards the payment of the outgoings of the premises in which he ordinarily resides.		30	0		25	0
	or			or
the weekly amount of the outgoings or the amount of the weekly contribution towards the outgoings whichever is the lesser.			the weekly amount of the outgoings or the amount of the weekly contribution towards the outgoings whichever is the lesser.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this Thirtieth day of July, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-five.

DONOGH O'MALLEY,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of these regulations is to revoke the existing regulations governing the payment of maintenance allowances to persons being treated for certain infectious diseases—the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) Regulations, 1964 ( S.I. No. 193 of 1964 )—and to re-make them with amendments providing for increases in the maximum allowances payable. The infectious diseases for which maintenance allowances are payable are tuberculosis, acute anterior poliomyelitis, typhoid, diphtheria, paratyphoid A, paratyphoid B, typhus fever, dysentery, salmonella infection, scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat.