S.I. No. 206/1970 - Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) (Amendment) Regulations, 1970.

S.I. No. 206 of 1970.

SOCIAL WELFARE (OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1970.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2 and 3 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), and by sections 1 , 8 , 9 , 14 and 15 of the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Act, 1966 (No. 16 of 1966), hereby make the following Regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) (Amendment) Regulations, 1970.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Regulations, 1967 and 1969, may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Regulations, 1967 to 1970.

2. (1) These Regulations, other than Articles 5, 6 and 7 (3), shall come into operation on the 5th day of October, 1970: provided that the amount of a disablement gratuity as provided by Article 7 of these Regulations shall be payable only when the period taken into account by the assessment of the degree of disablement begins on or after the 5th day of October, 1970.

(2) Articles 5, 6 and 7 (3) of these Regulations shall come into operation on the 15th day of February, 1971.

3. In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Regulations, 1967 ( S.I. No. 77 of 1967 ).

4. In paragraph (a) of Article 4 (2) of the Principal Regulations "five pounds" is hereby substituted for "87 shillings and 6 pence" (inserted by the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) (Amendment) Regulations, 1969 ( S.I. No. 183 of 1969 )) and in paragraph (b) thereof "one pound and fourteen shillings" is hereby substituted for "30 shillings" (inserted by those Regulations).

5. Article 6 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by—

( a ) the substitution in paragraph (b) of "five new pence" for "a shilling" in each place where those words occur, and

( b ) the substitution in the proviso of "five new pence" for "a shilling" in each place where those words occur.

6. Article 7 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the insertion in the proviso of "new" before "penny".

7. (1) The Scale set out in the Schedule to these Regulations is hereby substituted for the Scale set out in the Second Schedule to the Principal Regulations (inserted by the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) (Amendment) Regulations, 1969).

(2) The weekly rate of pension set out in column (3) of the Scale set out in the Schedule to these Regulations shall have effect as and from the 5th day of October, 1970, whether the period taken into account by the assessment began on or before or after that date.

(3) The weekly rates of pension set out in column (4) of the Scale set out in the Schedule to these Regulations shall, on the 15th day of February, 1971, be substituted for the Scale set out in column (3) of that Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Scale of Disablement Gratuities and of Weekly Rates of Pension in lieu of Disablement Gratuities.

Degree of disablement			Amount of Gratuity	Weekly rate of Pension
(1)			(2)	(3)		(4)
			£	s.	d.
1	per	cent ...	48	1	5	£0·07
2	,,	,, ...	72	2	10	£0·14
3	,,	,, ...	96	4	3	£0·21
4	,,	,, ...	120	5	8	£0·28
5	,,	,, ...	144	7	0	£0·35
6	,,	,, ...	168	8	5	£0·42
7	,,	,, ...	192	9	10	£0·49
8	,,	,, ...	216	11	3	£0·56
9	,,	,, ...	240	12	8	£0·63
10	,,	,, ...	264	14	0	£0·70
11	,,	,, ...	288	15	5	£0·77
12	,,	,, ...	312	16	10	£0·84
13	,,	,, ...	336	18	3	£0·91
14	,,	,, ...	360	19	8	£0·98
15	,,	,, ...	384	21	0	£1·05
16	,,	,, ...	408	22	5	£1·12
17	,,	,, ...	432	23	10	£1·19
18	,,	,, ...	456	25	3	£1·26
19	,,	,, ...	480	26	8	£1·33

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this 11th

day of September, 1970.

JOSEPH BRENNAN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Social Welfare Act, 1970 , makes provision, inter alia, for increases in the standard weekly rates of injury benefit and of disablement pension appropriate to degrees of disablement of 20% to 100%.

These Regulations amend the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Regulations, 1967, as amended by the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) (Amendment) Regulations, 1969, to provide for consequential increases in the weekly rates of injury benefit payable to persons under the age of sixteen, the amounts of disablement gratuities which are appropriate to degrees of disablement below 20% and the weekly rate of pension (with decimal equivalents) which may be substituted for each such gratuity.