Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013

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Number 38 of 2013

SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2013

CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title, construction, collective citations and commencement

PART 2

Amendments to Social Welfare Acts

2. Definitions

3. Contributions by certain persons

4. Illness benefit — amendments

5. Maternity benefit — rate of benefit

6. Adoptive benefit — rate of benefit

7. Injury benefit — amendments

8. Discontinuance of payment of bereavement grant

9. Jobseeker’s allowance — amendments

10. Supplementary welfare allowance — amendments

11. Discontinuance of mortgage interest supplement

12. Invalidity pension — rate of pension in certain cases

13. Recovery of certain benefits and assistance

PART 3

Amendment to Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003

14. Amendment to section 38 of Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003

PART 4

Amendments to Pensions Act 1990

15. Definition

16. Amendment of section 59B of Principal Act

17. Amendment of section 59C of Principal Act

18. New section 59H inserted into Principal Act

Acts Referred to

Civil Liability (Amendment) Act 1964 (No. 17)

Civil Liability Act 1961 (No. 41)

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Acts 1941 to 2003

Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 (No. 17)

Pensions Act 1990 (No. 25)

Pensions Acts 1990 to 2013

Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003 (No. 46)

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 (No. 22)

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010 (No. 28)

Social Welfare Act 2005 (No. 30)

Social Welfare Act 2010 (No. 34)

Social Welfare Acts

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (No. 20)

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2009 (No. 43)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2008 (No. 2)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2009 (No. 10)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010 (No. 37)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2012 (No. 12)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Number 38 of2013

SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2013

An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts and the Pensions Act 1990 ; to provide for the recovery of certain benefits and assistance by the Minister for Social Protection; to amend the Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003 ; and to provide for related matters. [9th November, 2013]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: