S.I. No. 161/1999 - Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 3) (Respite Care Grant) Regulations, 1999

The Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 4 and 168A (inserted by section 11 of the Social Welfare Act 1999 , (No. 3 of 1999)) of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993 (No. 27 of 1993) hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and construction.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 3) (Respite Care Grant) Regulations, 1999.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations, 1994 to 1999 shall be construed together as one and may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations, 1994 to 1999.

Respite care grant.

2. The Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations, 1994 ( S.I. No. 417 of 1994 ) are hereby amended by the insertion after article 85 of the following article:

“Respite care grant.

85A (1) The date each year on which a respite care grant shall be payable to a relevant carer shall be the date of the first Thursday in June of each year.

(2) The evidence to be provided for the purposes of section 168A (3) (b) shall be a statement, in the form for the time being approved by the Minister, that the applicant for the res pite grant is providing full-time care to a person in accordance with section 168A (2) (c).”.

	GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs this 25th day of May, 1999.
	DERMOT AHERN,
	Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations provide the Respite Care Grant will be payable to relevant carer's on the first Thursday in June each year.

The Regulations also provide that a statement should be provided by certain applicant's for respite care grant as evidence that they are providing full-time care to a person who is in receipt of an increase in disablement pension in respect of the need for constant care.