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Number 5 of 1990

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1990

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Preliminary

Section
1.	Short title, construction and collective citation.
2.	Definitions.

PART II

Increases

3.	Social insurance benefits (new rates).
4.	Social assistance payments (new rates).
5.	Child benefit.
6.	Definition of “qualified child”.
7.	Pay-related social insurance contributions (increase in earnings ceiling).
8.	Self-employment contributions (increase in earnings ceiling).
9.	Exemption of employed contributors from payment of contributions.
10.	Exemption from payment of contributions, etc.
11.	Pay-related benefit.

PART III

12.	Lone parent's allowance.
13.	Miscellaneous amendments to Principal Act for purposes of Part III.
14.	Amendment of Fourth Schedule to Principal Act.
15.	Amendment of section 3 (1) of Family Law (Maintenance of Spouses and Children) Act, 1976.
16.	Commencement of Part III.

PART IV

Carer's Allowance

17.	Carer's allowance.
18.	Consequential amendments to Principal Act.

PART V

Appeals

19.	Amendment of section 298 of Principal Act (appeals).
20.	Amendment of section 299 of Principal Act.
21.	Repeal.
22.	Commencement of Part V.

PART VI

Dissolution of Occupational Injuries Fund and Redundancy and Employers' Insolvency Fund and Transfer of Moneys from those Funds to Social Insurance Fund

23.	Dissolution of Occupational Injuries Fund.
24.	Transfer of moneys to Social Insurance Fund.
25.	Amendment of section 6 of Employers' Employment Contributions Scheme Act, 1981.
26.	Amendment of Act of 1967.
27.	Amendment of section 15 of Act of 1971.
28.	Amendment of Act of 1984.
29.	Repeals.
30.	Definitions (Part VI).
31.	Commencement of Part VI.

PART VII

Miscellaneous Amendments

32.	Amendment of section 22 of Principal Act (duration of payment).
33.	Amendment of section 125 of Principal Act (payments after death).
34.	Exemption of certain payments from calculation of means.
35.	Amendment of Third Schedule to Principal Act (calculation of means).
36.	Employment contributions.
37.	Amendment of Part IIA of First Schedule to Principal Act.
38.	Supplementary welfare allowance granted to persons in receipt of certain payments.
39.	Amendment of section 43 of Principal Act (assessment of disablement benefit).
40.	Amendment of section 156B (2) of Principal Act.
41.	Single woman's allowance and orphan's (non-contributory) pension.
42.	Weekly rate of family income supplement.
43.	Effect of means on certain rates of pension, assistance and allowance.
44.	Offences.
45.	Priority debts to Social Insurance Fund in a company winding-up.
46.	Amendment of section 306A of Principal Act.
47.	Participation in Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme.
48.	Disqualification for receipt of assistance.
49.	Increase in certain pensions and benefit when recipient reaches 80 years.
50.	Payment of death benefit by way of parent's pension.
51.	Sanction of Minister for Finance in relation to certain regulations.

Acts Referred to
Companies Act, 1963	1963, No. 33
Companies Acts, 1963 to 1986
Employers' Employment Contribution Scheme Act, 1981	1981, No. 19
Employers' Employment Contribution Scheme Acts, 1981 and 1988
Family Law (Maintenance of Spouses and Children) Act, 1976	1976, No. 11
Health Act, 1947	1947, No. 28
Health Act, 1970	1970, No. 1
Health Contributions Act, 1979	1979, No. 4
Income Tax Act, 1967	1967, No. 6
Income Tax Acts
Labour Services Act, 1987	1987, No. 15
Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) Act, 1984	1984, No. 21
Redundancy Payments Act, 1967	1967, No. 21
Redundancy Payments Act, 1971	1971, No. 20
Redundancy Payments Act, 1979	1979, No. 7
Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 1984
Social Welfare Act, 1952	1952, No. 11
Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981	1981, No. 1
Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1981	1981, No. 3
Social Welfare Act, 1982	1982, No. 2
Social Welfare Act, 1983	1983, No. 6
Social Welfare Act, 1984	1984, No. 5
Social Welfare Act, 1985	1985, No. 5
Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1985	1985, No. 14
Social Welfare Act, 1986	1986, No. 8
Social Welfare Act, 1987	1987, No. 2
Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1987	1987, No. 29
Social Welfare Act, 1988	1988, No. 7
Social Welfare Act, 1989	1989, No. 4
Social Welfare Acts, 1981 to 1989
Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981	1981, No. 32

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Number 5 of 1990

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1990

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS, 1981 TO 1989, AND FOR THOSE PURPOSES TO AMEND SECTION 3 OF THE FAMILY LAW (MAINTENANCE OF SPOUSES AND CHILDREN) ACT, 1976 , TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF THE OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES FUND AND THE REDUNDANCY AND EMPLOYERS' INSOLVENCY FUND AND THE TRANSFER OF MONEYS FROM THOSE FUNDS TO THE SOCIAL INSURANCE FUND AND TO PROVIDE FOR CONNECTED MATTERS. [4th April, 1990]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

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