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Entitlement to payment.
[1996 s17(1)]
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173.—(1) Subject to this Act and to regulations made under this Act, a payment shall be payable to a qualified parent (“one-parent family payment”).
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| [1996 s17(1)] |
(2) A one-parent family payment payable to a qualified parent shall, subject to this Act, continue to be payable unless the qualified parent marries or remarries, and in such a case the one-parent family payment shall cease as and from the date of marriage or remarriage.
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| [1996 s17(1); 1999 s31(a)] |
(3) Subject to this Act, a one-parent family payment shall not be payable to a qualified parent whose gross weekly earnings (including wages and profit from any form of self-employment) exceed €293.
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| [1996 s17(1); 2001 s21(1)] |
(4) Regulations may, subject to the conditions and in the circumstances and for the periods that may be prescribed, entitle to one-parent family payment a qualified parent who, having been in receipt of that payment for 52 consecutive weeks, ceases to be entitled to that payment by virtue of having earnings in excess of the amount specified in subsection (3).
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| [1996 s17(1)] |
(5) Regulations under subsection (4) shall provide that one-parent family payment payable by virtue of those regulations shall be payable at a rate less than that specified in Schedule 4 and the rate specified by the regulations may vary with the extent to which the person's earnings exceed the amount specified in subsection (3).
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| [2004 (MP) s17(1) & Sch 1] |
(6) A one-parent family payment shall not be payable to a qualified parent under this Chapter unless the qualified parent is habitually resident in the State at the date of the making of the application for that payment.
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