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PART IV
Children's Allowances
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Qualified child.
[1946 CA, s. 4; 1973, s. 6]
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223.—(1) A child shall be a qualified child (in this Part referred to as a qualified child) for the purposes of children's allowances if—
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(a) he is under the age of 16 years, or
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(b) having attained the age of 16 years he is under the age of 18 years and—
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(i) is receiving full-time instruction by day at any university, college, school or other educational establishment, or
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(ii) is an apprentice, or
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(iii) is, by reason of physical or mental infirmity, incapable of self-support and likely to remain so incapable for a prolonged period, and
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(c) he is ordinarily resident in the State, and
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(d) he is not detained in a reformatory or an industrial school and is not undergoing imprisonment or detention in legal custody.
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[1965 MP, s. 17]
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(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a child who resides with his father while the father (being a member of the Defence Forces or the civil service of the Government or the State) is in the service, outside the State, of the Government, the State or an international organisation shall be a qualified child for the purposes of this Part.
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