Social Welfare Act, 1984

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Amendment of section 169 of Principal Act (legal proceedings).

24.—Section 169 of the Principal Act is hereby amended—

(a) by the deletion of subsection (6), and

(b) by the substitution for subsection (7) of the following subsection:

“(7) Where a person who is in receipt of old age pension is liable to repay to the Minister any sums under subsection (3), the Minister shall be entitled, without prejudice to his powers under that subsection, to direct the deduction of those sums from any sums to which that person becomes entitled on account of old age pension, as provided by regulations made for the purpose under section 170: provided that, in the case of a personal representative the deduction shall only be made from any sum to which that person becomes entitled as a personal representative.”.