S.I. No. 681/2006 - Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 16) (Early Childcare Supplement) Regulations 2006

S.I. No. 681 of 2006

SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATED PAYMENTS PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) (No. 16) (EARLY CHILDCARE SUPPLEMENT) REGULATIONS 2006

The Minister for Social and Family Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 4 (as amended by section 17 and Schedule 3 of the Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006 (No. 5 of 2006)), 223B (as inserted by section 28 of the Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006 ) and 242 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26 of 2005), hereby makes the following regulations:

Citation and construction.

1.(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 16) (Early Childcare Supplement) Regulations 2006.

(2) These regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations, 1994 to 2006 shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations 1994 to 2006.

Commencement.

2. These regulations come into operation on 1 January 2007.

Definitions.

3. In these regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations 1994 ( S.I. No. 417 of 1994 ).

Early childcare supplement - time of payment.

7. The Principal Regulations are amended in article 110(1) by substituting for paragraph (f) (as inserted by article 7 of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 1) (Early Childcare Supplement) Regulations 2006 ( S.I. No. 147 of 2006 )) the following:

“(f) in the case of early childcare supplement, in respect of each period of three months specified in column (1) of the table to this sub-article on the day specified in column (2) of that table.

TABLE

Period	Day
(1)	(2)
January, February, March	2^nd Monday in April
April, May, June	2^nd Monday in July
July, August, September	2^nd Monday in October
October, November, December	2^nd Monday in December

”.

		GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social and Family Affairs this 11^th day of December, 2006.
LS		SÉAMUS BRENNAN
		Minister for Social and Family Affairs.

The Minister for Health and Children hereby consents to the making of the foregoing regulations.

		GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health and Children this 21^st day of December, 2006.
LS		MARY HARNEY
		Minister for Health and Children

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing regulations.

		GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 20^th day of December, 2006.
LS		BRIAN COWEN
		Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These Regulations set out the dates on which Early Childcare Supplement will be payable for the 2007 and subsequent years.