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Extension of “qualified child” (pensions payable in the case of widows and orphans).
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9.—(1) Subsection (1) of section 3 (inserted by the Act of 1952) of the Act of 1935 is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (a) of the definition of “qualified child” of the following paragraph:
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“(a) either is under the age of sixteen years or, if over that age, is under the age of twenty-one years and receiving full-time instruction by day at any university, college, school or other educational establishment,”.
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(2) Subsection (2B) (inserted by the Act of 1966) of section 77 of the Act of 1952 is hereby amended by the insertion at the end of the subsection of “and, in relation to a claimant or pensioner who is a widow, shall be deemed to include a person over the age of sixteen years and under the age of twenty-one years who is receiving full-time instruction by day at any university, college, school or other educational establishment and in respect of whom, if he were under the age of sixteen years, the claimant or pensioner would be entitled as aforesaid”.
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(3) In determining the weekly rate of a widow's (contributory) pension or an old age (contributory) pension payable under the Social Welfare Acts, 1952 to 1968, to a widow, and in deciding whether an orphan's (contributory) allowance under those Acts is payable, a person over the age of sixteen years who, if he were under that age, would be a qualified child, shall be taken to be a qualified child for any period during which he is under the age of twenty-one years and is receiving full-time instruction by day at any university, college, school or other educational establishment.
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(4) Subsections (1) to (3) of this section shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1969.
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