Produced by the Office of the Attorney General
Táirgthe ag Oifig an Ard-Aighne
Number 3 of 1981
SOCIAL WELFARE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1981
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
Preliminary
Section
1.
Short title and construction.
2.
Principal Act.
PART II
Increases and Miscellaneous Amendments
3.
Social insurance benefits (new rates).
4.
Social assistance payments and children's allowances (new rates).
5.
Pay-related social insurance (new rates of contributions and increase in earnings ceiling).
6.
Pay-related benefit (additional waiting days for certain benefits).
7.
Pay-related benefit (increase in amount of earnings disregarded).
8.
Old age pension (removal of fifteen-year residence condition).
PART III
New Provisions relating to Maternity Allowance
9.
Maternity allowance (extension of period of entitlement in certain cases).
10.
Maternity allowance (amendment of contribution conditions).
11.
Pay-related benefit (additional benefit for certain recipients of maternity allowance).
PART IV
Repeals and Minor Amendments
12.
Repeal of certain obsolete provisions of Principal Act.
13.
Amendment of section 45 of Principal Act.
14.
Occupational injuries benefit (payment of prescribed relative allowance to certain pensioners).
15.
Extension of meaning of “adult dependant” in the case of old age (contributory) pension and retirement pension.
16.
Extension of meaning of “qualified child” in the case of retirement pension and invalidity pension.
17.
Unemployment assistance (meaning of “trade dispute”).
18.
Unemployment assistance (offences by bodies corporate).
19.
Amendment of section 305 of Principal Act.
20.
Amendment of section 269 of Principal Act.
SCHEDULE A
Rates of Benefit
SCHEDULE B
Rates of Assistance
Acts Referred to
Debtors Act (Ireland), 1872
35 & 36 Vic. C.57
Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
1981, No. 1
Maternity Protection of Employees Act, 1981
1981, No. 2
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1981 . [27th March, 1981]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
