Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1974
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Amendment of section 3 of Social Welfare (Pay-Related Benefit) Act, 1973. |
24.—(1) For the purpose of ensuring that all recipients of injury benefit under the Act of 1966, who would otherwise be in receipt of disability benefit or maternity allowance can qualify for pay-related benefit, section 3 (1) (a) of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Benefit) Act, 1973 , is hereby amended by the deletion of “section 8 of”. | |
(2) For the purpose of ensuring that pay-related benefit may be paid for up to 147 days of incapacity for work, or 147 days of unemployment in any period of interruption of employment, section 3 of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Benefit) Act, 1973 , is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (3) of the following subsection: | ||
“(4) In calculating for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section whether a person has had one hundred and fifty-nine days of incapacity for work or one hundred and fifty-nine days of unemployment in a period of interruption of employment, account shall not be taken of— | ||
(i) any day of incapacity for work in that period in respect of which the person was not paid disability benefit, maternity allowance or injury benefit other than a day to which section 15 (2) of the Act of 1952 applied, or | ||
(ii) any day of unemployment in that period in respect of which that person was not paid unemployment benefit, other than a day to which the said section 15 (2) applied.”. | ||
(3) This section shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1974. |