Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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Regulations. [1944 CA, s. 20] |
232.—(1) The Minister may— | |
(a) prescribe the manner in which and the times at which children's allowances are to be paid; | ||
(b) prescribe the procedure to be followed on references (which relate to children's allowances) under section 298 and for applying for the purposes of any such reference any of the provisions of the Common Law Procedure Amendment Act(Ireland) 1856 and for excluding the application of any of the other provisions of that Act; | ||
(c) make regulations for enabling a person to whom a children's allowance is payable to nominate another person to receive that allowance on behalf of the first-mentioned person; | ||
(d) make regulations for authorising in such cases as may be specified the payment of any sum by way of children's allowance during any period intervening between the making of any claim or the referring of any question and the final determination of the claim or question; | ||
(e) make regulations for providing that, notwithstanding anything contained in section 226 — | ||
[1952 CA, s. 6] | ||
(i) in the case of the death of a person who was in receipt of a children's allowance, payment may be made of any sum which became payable within 3 months (or, where the Minister so thinks fit, 6 months) before the date of his death on account of the children's allowance, but has not been paid, and | ||
[1946 CA, s. 12] | ||
(ii) in the case of the death of a person who was qualified for a children's allowance, payment may be made of any sum which, if a claim for the children's allowance had been allowed immediately before his death, would have become payable on account of the children's allowance up to the date of his death; | ||
[1944 CA, s. 20] | ||
(f) make regulations for providing that, subject to the regulations, probate or other proof of the title of the personal representatives of the deceased person may be dispensed with in the case of any such sum as is mentioned in paragraph (e), and that any such sum may be paid or distributed to or among the persons appearing in manner provided by the regulations to be entitled to receive the said sum or any part thereof, either as being persons beneficially entitled thereto under any testamentary instrument or as next of kin, or as being creditors of the deceased person, or to or among any one or more of such persons exclusive of the others, or, in the case of any illegitimacy of the deceased person or any child of his, to or among such person or persons as may be directed by the regulations; | ||
[1952 CA, s. 5] | ||
(g) prescribe the manner in which claims for children's allowances are to be made; | ||
(h) prescribe the dates on which children's allowances, as awarded originally, are to commence to accrue; | ||
(i) prescribe the dates on which children's allowances, as revised from time to time on account of changes of circumstances, are, notwithstanding anything contained in section 300 , to take effect; | ||
(j) make regulations for applying any of the provisions of or made under sections 111 , 112 , 113 , 128 , 295 , 296 , 297 , 298 , 299 and 300 to children's allowances, whether such application is with or without modifications and whether in addition to or in substitution for any provisions of this Part or Part VIII . | ||
(2) Regulations under this section which provide for the payment of children's allowances through the Post Office shall be made with the consent of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs. |