S.I. No. 576/2024 - Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 (Relevant Payments) Regulations 2024

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 25th October, 2024.

I, STEPHEN DONNELLY, Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 36 of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 (No. 15 of 2009), being satisfied that subsection 5A(a) of that section has been complied with and having complied with subsection 5A(b) of that section, hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 (Relevant Payments) Regulations 2024.

2. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 2023.

3. In these Regulations “the Act of 2009” means the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 (No. 15 of 2009).

4. The class of ex gratia payment or payments specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (f) of the definition of “relevant payment” in paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 of the Act of 2009.

SCHEDULE

1. A payment or payments made to the person under the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal Acts 1997 to 2006.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

23 October, 2024.

STEPHEN DONNELLY,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These Regulations prescribe ex gratia payments for the purposes of paragraph (f) of the definition of “relevant payment” in paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 (No. 15 of 2009).