Social Welfare Act, 1999
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PART II Increases | ||
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Social insurance benefits (new rates). |
4.—(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for Parts I to IV (inserted by section 4 of the Act of 1998) and Part V of the Second Schedule thereto of the Parts set out in Schedule A to this Act. | |
(2) This section shall come into operation— | ||
(a) in so far as it relates to death benefit under section 63 and bereavement grant (inserted by section 19 of this Act), on the 6th day of April, 1999, | ||
(b) in so far as it relates to unemployment benefit, on the 27th day of May, 1999, | ||
(c) in so far as it relates to disability benefit, health and safety benefit, injury benefit and disablement gratuity on the 31st day of May, 1999, | ||
(d) in so far as it relates to retirement pension, invalidity pension and a relevant payment by virtue of section 18(1)(a) of the Act of 1996, on the 3rd day of June, 1999, and | ||
(e) in so far as it relates to disablement pension, death benefit under section 60, 61 or 62 of the Principal Act, old age (contributory) pension, widow's and widower's (contributory) pension and orphan's (contributory) allowance, on the 4th day of June, 1999. |