Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1981

Social assistance payments and children's allowances (new rates).

4.—(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for Parts I, III and IV of the Fourth Schedule to that Act of the Parts set out in Schedule B to this Act.

(2) This section shall come into operation—

(a) in so far as it relates to unemployment assistance, on the 1st day of April, 1981.

(b) in so far as it relates to old age pension, blind pension, widow's (non-contributory) pension and orphan's (non-contributory) pension, on the 3rd day of April, 1981,

(c) in so far as it relates to deserted wife's allowance, prisoner's wife's allowance, social assistance allowance and single woman's allowance, on the 2nd day of April, 1981,

(d) in so far as it relates to supplementary welfare allowance, on the 6th day of April, 1981, and

(e) in so far as it relates to children's allowances, on the 1st day of July, 1981.