Social Welfare Act, 1982

Miscellaneous amendments of Principal Act.

10.—Each provision of the Principal Act mentioned in column (1) of the Table to this section is hereby amended in the manner stated in column (2) of that Table opposite the mention of that provision in column (1).

TABLE

Provision Amended

Nature of Amendment

(1)

(2)

Section 2 (1)

The substitution in the definition of “adult dependant” of the following paragraph for paragraph (c):

“(c) a female person over the age of 16 years being wholly or mainly maintained by that person and having the care of one or more than one qualified child who normally resides with that person where that person is—

(i) a single person, or

(ii) a widow, or

(iii) a widower, or

(iv) a married person who is not living with and is neither wholly or mainly maintaining, nor being wholly or mainly maintained by, such married person's spouse;”

Section 3 (4) (a)

The deletion of “16,”.

Section 132 (3)

The substitution of “section 15” for “section 14”.