Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1963

Amendment of Seventh Schedule to Act of 1952.

16.—(1) Rule 1 of the Seventh Schedule to the Act of 1952 shall have effect in calculating the means of a person, in the case of a pension under the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 to 1963, as if for subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph (I) there were substituted the following paragraphs:

“(a) the first £100 of the capital value of the property shall be excluded, and

(b) in the case of a widow who has a qualified child or qualified children normally residing with her an additional £100 of the capital value of the property shall be excluded in respect of each such qualified child in respect of whom an increase of pension is claimable, and

(c) the yearly value of any remainder of the capital value of the property shall be taken to be one-twentieth part of such remainder.”

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1963.