Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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CHAPTER 8 Retirement Pension | ||
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Title to pension. [1952, s. 25D; 1970, s. 7] |
83.—(1) Subject to this Act, a person who has attained the age of 65 years shall be entitled to retirement pension for any period of retirement if he satisfies the contribution conditions in section 84 . | |
[1974 (No. 2), s. 10] | ||
(2) Subject to section 125 , payment of retirement pension shall continue to be made for a period of 6 weeks after the date of death of a beneficiary who had an adult dependant. | ||
(3) The periods which shall be regarded for the purposes of this section as periods of retirement shall be specified by regulations. | ||
[1978 AM, s. 13] | ||
(4) For the purposes of this Chapter— | ||
“yearly average” means in relation to any claimant the average per contribution year of contribution weeks in respect of which that claimant has qualifying contributions, voluntary contributions or credited contributions in the period commencing either— | ||
(i) on 5th January, 1953, in case the claimant is a man or on 6th July, 1953, in case the claimant is a woman, or | ||
(ii) at the beginning of the contribution year in which the claimant's entry into insurance occurred (if after 5th January, 1953, in the case of a man or 6th July, 1953, in the case of a woman), | ||
(whichever is the later) and ending at the end of the last complete contribution year before the date of the claimant's attaining the age of 65 years. |