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Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2005

Certain EU payments — entitlement to island allowance.

10.—The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 56(1) (as amended by section 17(1)(a) of the Act of 2001), by substituting “, by the amount set out in column (3) of Part IV of the Second Schedule where the beneficiary is living alone and by the amount set out in column (4) of Part IV of the Second Schedule where the beneficiary is ordinarily resident on an island” for “and by the amount set out in column (3) of Part IV of the Second Schedule where the beneficiary is living alone”,

(b) by inserting the following after Part VA (inserted by section 7 of the Act of 1996):

“PART VB

EU PAYMENTS

Certain EU payments— entitlement to island allowance.

203F.—Where a person is ordinarily resident on an island and entitled to or in receipt of a payment from another Member State corresponding to a payment under—

(a) section 60, 61, 86, 87A, 90, 103, 136, 144 or 159 and he or she has attained pensionable age, or

(b) section 56(1), 98 or 191C,

he or she shall be entitled to a weekly allowance of €12.70 or any amount that may be prescribed.”,

(c) by substituting “VA, VB,” for “VA,” in each place where it occurs in sections 212(1) and (8), 265(b) and 277(1) (each as amended by section 7 of this Act),

(d) in the Third Schedule, by substituting “,VA or VB,” for “or VA” in each place where it occurs in the following provisions—

(i) Part I, in Rule 1(2)(b),

(ii) Part II, in Rule 1(4)(b), and

(iii) Part IV, in Rule 1(3)(a),

and

(e) in section 247(2) (as amended by section 7 of this Act), by inserting the following after paragraph (e) (as amended by section 24 of the Act of 1998):

“(ea) Part VB (EU payments),”.