S.I. No. 332/1979 - Social Welfare (Disability and Unemployment Benefit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1979.

S.I. No. 332 of 1979.

SOCIAL WELFARE (DISABILITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) REGULATIONS, 1979.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Sections 3 and 28 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952) and with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Disability and Unemployment Benefit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1979.

(2) These Regulations shall be included in the collective citation of the Social Welfare (Disability and Unemployment Benefit) Regulations, 1953 to 1979.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1979.

3. The following Schedule shall be substituted for the First Schedule to the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) Regulations, 1953 ( S.I. No. 7 of 1953 ) as amended by article 3 of the Social Welfare (Disability and Unemployment Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations, 1979 ( S.I. No. 100 of 1979 ):—

Article 4

"FIRST SCHEDULE

REDUCED RATES OF DISABILITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT

(1)	(2)	(3)
	Full weekly rate of benefit applicable under Part 1 of the Third Schedule to the Act as varied by the Social Welfare (Variation of Rates of Payments) Regulations, 1979 ( S.I. No. 320 of 1979 )
	£17.05	£15.00
Number of employment contributions paid or credited in respect of the relevant contribution year.	Reduced rate at which benefit is payable.
41—47	£16.45	£14.55
33—40	£15.80	£14.15
26—32	£15.30	£14.15

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this

1st day of October, 1979.

CHARLES J. HAUGHEY,

Minister for Social Welfare.

The Minister for Finance hereby sanctions the foregoing Regulation.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 1st

day of October, 1979.

SEOIRSE Ó COLLA,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations provide for increases in the existing statutory reduced rates of disability benefit and unemployment benefit payable where the contribution condition in respect of the governing contribution year is only partially satisfied. The new rates are payable from 1 October, 1979.