Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1961

Amendment of Seventh Schedule to Act of 1952.

19.—The Seventh Schedule to the Act of 1952 is hereby amended by the insertion in subparagraph (c) of paragraph (1) of Rule 3 after “each so determined” of “less, as respects the older member of a married couple consisting of persons each of whom is not less than sixty years of age and neither of whom is wholly or mainly dependent on the means of an individual other than a member of the married couple—

(i) in case the sum of the income (if any) in cash of the married couple of which account is taken under paragraph II of Rule 1 of this Schedule and of the amounts (if any) which were excluded, by virtue of subparagraphs (e), (g) and (h) of the said paragraphII, in the calculation of the said income in cash of the married couple does not exceed £165, the whole of the income in cash of the married couple of which account is taken under the said paragraph II, and

(ii) in any other case, so much of the income in cash of the married couple of which account is taken under the said paragraph II as, when added to the amounts (if any) which were excluded, by virtue of the said subparagraphs (e), (g) and (h), in the calculation of the said income in cash of the married couple, amounts to £165”.