Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1965

Remuneration limit in respect of insured persons.

6.—(1) The First Schedule to the Act of 1952 is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph 1 (inserted by the Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1958 ) of Part II of the following paragraph:

“1. Employment, otherwise than by way of manual labour, at a rate of remuneration exceeding in value twelve hundred pounds a year, or in cases where such employment involves part-time service only, at a rate of remuneration which is equivalent to a rate of remuneration exceeding twelve hundred pounds a year for whole-time service.”

(2) (a) The Government may from time to time by order vary the rates of remuneration specified in the said paragraph 1.

(b) The Government may from time to time by order amend or revoke an order under this subsection (including an order under this paragraph).

(c) Where an order is proposed to be made under this subsection, a draft thereof shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the order shall not be made until a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by each such House.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall come into operation on such day as the Minister may appoint by order.