Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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Regulations. [1973 PRB, s. 8] |
76.—(1) The Minister may by regulations provide for— | |
(a) the calculation or estimation of the amount of the reckonable earnings and the amount of the reckonable weekly earnings of a person or class of persons for the purposes of this Chapter, in such manner, by reference to such matters and on such basis as may be specified; | ||
[1973 PRB, s. 9; 1978 AM, s. 18 (3)] | ||
(b) the calculation of the amounts payable in respect of pay-related benefit in accordance with prescribed scales and for such adjustments of the amounts as may be necessary to facilitate the computation of the amounts and avoid fractions of a penny in the amounts; | ||
[1973 PRB, s. 10] | ||
(c) the application of this Chapter to persons employed in such class or classes of employment as may be specified in the regulations and may by such regulations make such modifications in the provisions of this Chapter as may appear to him to be necessary for that purpose; | ||
(d) the exclusion from the application of this Chapter of persons employed in employment of such class or classes as may be specified in the regulations; | ||
[1973 PRB, s. 11] | ||
(e) the modification of any of the conditions for receipt of pay-related benefit in the case of any claim to such benefit arising during the period which began on 8th April, 1974, and ending on such date as may be specified in the regulations; | ||
[1973 PRB, s. 13] | ||
(f) requiring employers, for the purposes of pay-related contributions and pay-related benefit, to keep such records as may be specified in the regulations of the earnings of persons employed by them and to retain the records for such periods as may be prescribed and any records so specified shall be deemed to be documents for the purposes of section 114 . | ||
[1973 PRB, s. 10] | ||
(2) A class of employment may be specified in regulations under subsection (1) (c) or (d) in such manner and by reference to such matters as the Minister thinks appropriate. | ||
(3) Where regulations modifying the provisions of this Chapter are proposed to be made under subsection (1) (c) or (d), a draft thereof shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the regulations shall not be made until a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by each such House. |