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PART VI
Other Social Assistance Improvements
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Disability allowance — extension of entitlement etc.
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22.—(1) Section 191B (inserted by section 13 of the Act of 1996) is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (3) of the following subsections:
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“(3) Subject to subsection (3A), a person shall not be entitled to receive disability allowance for any period during which that person is resident in an institution, except and insofar as that person, being a beneficiary, is admitted to such institution for the purposes of undergoing medical or other treatment of a temporary nature therein for a period not exceeding 13 weeks.
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(3A) Subject to this Chapter, regulations may, subject to such conditions and in such circumstances as may be prescribed, provide for entitling to disability allowance a person who would be entitled thereto but for the fact that he or she is resident in an institution, where the person is temporarily resident elsewhere for—
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(i) a period of not less than two days a week, or
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(ii) such other period as may be prescribed:
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Provided that in the case of a person to whom paragraph (i) applies, disability allowance payable by virtue thereof shall be payable at a rate less than that specified in the Fourth Schedule.”.
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(2) Section 191E (inserted by section 13 of the Act of 1996) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for “, old age (non-contributory) pension, retirement pension or invalidity pension” of “or retirement pension”.
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(3) Section 231 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion in subsection (1) after “Part II” of “or Part III”.
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