Social Welfare (Supplementary Welfare Allowances) Act, 1975
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Grant of supplementary welfare allowance in cases of urgency. |
15.—(1) Nothing in sections 3 , 4 or 5 of this Act shall prevent the payment of supplementary welfare allowance in an urgent case and in determining whether an allowance is payable by virtue of this section, and the amount or nature of the allowance, the health board shall not be bound by anything contained in sections 8 to 12 of this Act or in any regulations made under this Act which appears to it inappropriate in the circumstances of the case. | |
(2) Where pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, supplementary welfare allowance is paid to a person who is engaged in remunerative full-time work, a health board may, if it is satisfied that in all the circumstances of the case it would be equitable so to do, determine that the whole or part of the allowance so paid shall be recoverable from the person to whom it is paid. |