Social Welfare Act, 1990

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Amendment of Act of 1967.

26.— The Act of 1967 is hereby amended by—

(a) the insertion in section 2 after the definition of “‘sickness’ or ‘illness’” of the following definition:

“‘the Social Insurance Fund’ means the Social Insurance Fund established under section 39 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 , and continued in being under section 122 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 ;”,

(b) the substitution for section 27 (as amended by section 2 of the Act of 1979) of the following section:

“Employers' redundancy contributions to be paid into Social Insurance Fund.

27.—(1) For the purpose of providing moneys for making payments which under this Act are to be made out of the Social Insurance Fund there shall be paid into that Fund contributions by employers (in this Part referred to as ‘employers’ redundancy contributions').

(2) Employers' redundancy contributions and all moneys received by the Minister under this Act shall be paid into the Social Insurance Fund.

(3) All payments made pursuant to this Act shall be made out of the Social Insurance Fund.”,

(c) the substitution for “Redundancy and Employers' Insolvency Fund” (as extended by section 2 of the Act of 1984) of “Social Insurance Fund” in each place where it occurs in the provisions mentioned in the Table to this section, and

(d) the substitution for section 43 of the following section:

“Recovery of sums due to Social Insurance Fund.

43.— All moneys due to the Social Insurance Fund under this Act shall be recoverable as debts due to the State and, without prejudice to any other remedy, may be recovered by the Minister as a debt under statute in any court of competent jurisdiction.”.

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