Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1981
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Social assistance payments and children's allowances (new rates). |
4.—(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for Parts I, III and IV of the Fourth Schedule to that Act of the Parts set out in Schedule B to this Act. | |
(2) This section shall come into operation— | ||
(a) in so far as it relates to unemployment assistance, on the 1st day of April, 1981. | ||
(b) in so far as it relates to old age pension, blind pension, widow's (non-contributory) pension and orphan's (non-contributory) pension, on the 3rd day of April, 1981, | ||
(c) in so far as it relates to deserted wife's allowance, prisoner's wife's allowance, social assistance allowance and single woman's allowance, on the 2nd day of April, 1981, | ||
(d) in so far as it relates to supplementary welfare allowance, on the 6th day of April, 1981, and | ||
(e) in so far as it relates to children's allowances, on the 1st day of July, 1981. |