Social Welfare Act, 1983

Duration of payment of pay-related benefit.

10.—(1) Section 74 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (2) (inserted by the Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1981 ) of the following subsection:

“(2) In calculating for the purposes of section 73 and this section whether, in a period of interruption of employment, a person has had a specified number of days of incapacity for work or a specified number of days of unemployment, account shall be taken of only—

(a) the first 18 days of incapacity for work in that period and any day of incapacity for work in that period in respect of which that person was entitled to pay-related benefit or would have been so entitled but for any condition prescribed for the purpose of section 73,

(b) the first 18 days of unemployment in that period and any day of unemployment in that period in respect of which that person was entitled to pay-related benefit or would have been so entitled but for any condition prescribed for the purpose of section 73.”.

(2) This section shall apply to periods of interruption of employment commencing on or after the 4th day of April, 1983.