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S.I. No. 18/1965 - Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations, 1965.

S.I. No. 18 of 1965.

SOCIAL WELFARE (DISABILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND MARRIAGE BENEFIT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1965.

I, CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 , 15 and 17 (1) of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), hereby make the following Regulations:—

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations, 1965.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) Regulations, 1953 to 1963 may be cited collectively as the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) Regulations, 1953 to 1965.

2. In these Regulations " the Principal Regulations " mean the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) Regulations, 1953 ( S.I. No. 7 of 1953 ).

3. Article 7 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) for the words " six shillings and eight pence " (as substituted by article 3 of the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations, 1962 ( S.I. No. 135 of 1962 )) of the words " ten shillings ".

4. Rule 5 of the Rules of Behaviour specified in the Third Schedule to the Principal Regulations (as substituted by article 5 of the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations, 1962 ( S.I. No. 135 of 1962 )) is hereby amended by the substitution in paragraph (b) and in paragraph (c) for the words " forty shillings " of the words " sixty shillings ".

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 1st day of February, 1965.

CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations increase from 6/8d. to 10/- the daily amount of remuneration or profit which may be derived from a subsidiary occupation without affecting title to unemployment benefit for such day. They also increase from 40/- to 60/- a week the amount a person may earn from certain types of work specified in the Rules of Behaviour which claimants to disability benefit must observe.