Social Welfare Act, 1984

Social assistance payments (new rates).

4.—(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for—

(a) Part I of the Fourth Schedule (inserted by the Act of 1983 and varied by the Social Welfare (Variation of Rates of Unemployment Assistance) Regulations, 1983 (S.I. No. 268 of 1983)),

(b) Part III of that Schedule (inserted by the Act of 1983), and

(c) Part IV of that Schedule (inserted by the Social Welfare Act, 1982 ),

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 and supplementary welfare allowance, on the 4th day of July, 1984,

(b) 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 5th day of July, 1984,

(c) 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 6th day of July, 1984, and

(d) in so far as it relates to children's allowances, on the 7th day of August, 1984.