Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1976
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Amendments of Old Age Pensions Act, 1932. |
13.—(1) Section 2 of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1932 (as amended by the Act of 1952) is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1): | |
“(1) In lieu of the second statutory condition contained in paragraph (2) (repealed by this Act) of section 2 of the Act of 1908, it is hereby enacted that it shall be a condition for the receipt of an old age pension by any person that he shall satisfy the pension authorities that he has had his residence in the State for an aggregate period of not less than 15 years and that not less than 5 years of that period were subsequent to his attaining the age of 50 years.”. | ||
(2) The Old Age Pensions Act, 1932 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the following section for section 6: | ||
“6. In lieu of section 1 (repealed by this Act) of the Blind Persons Act, 1920, it is hereby enacted that every blind person who has attained the age of 21 years shall be entitled to receive and to continue to receive such pension as, under the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1976 (as amended) he would be entitled to receive if he had attained the age of 67 years, and the provisions of those Acts (as amended), including the provisions as to expenses, shall apply in all respects to such person subject to the following modifications— | ||
(a) for the first statutory condition contained in section 2 of the Act of 1908 there shall be substituted the condition that the person must be a person who has attained the age of 21 years and satisfies the pension authorities that he is so blind that either he cannot perform any work for which eyesight is essential or that he cannot continue his ordinary occupation; and | ||
(b) for the statutory condition substituted by this Act for the second statutory condition contained in section 2 of the Act of 1908 there shall be substituted the condition that the person shall satisfy the pension authorities that, since reaching the age of 10 years, he has had his residence in the State for an aggregate period of 5 years and the provisions of this Act in relation to the interpretation of the first-mentioned statutory condition contained in that section shall apply to the interpretation of the condition imposed by this paragraph.”. |