Social Welfare Act, 1987

Calculation of amounts payable on basis of daily rates for certain benefits.

9.—(1) Section 18 of the Principal Act (which relates to entitlement to disability benefit) is hereby amended by the insertion in subsection (6) after “one-sixth the appropriate weekly rate” of “subject to the total amount being paid at any time by virtue of this subsection being rounded up to the nearest 10p where it is a multiple of 5p but not also a multiple of 10p and being rounded to the nearest 10p where it is not a multiple of 5p or 10p”.

(2) Section 29 of the Principal Act (which relates to entitlement to unemployment benefit) is hereby amended—

(a) by the insertion in subsection (6) after “one-sixth of the appropriate weekly rate” of “subject to the total amount being paid at any time by virtue of this subsection being rounded up to the nearest 10p where it is a multiple of 5p but not also a multiple of 10p and being rounded to the nearest 10p where it is not a multiple of 5p or 10p”.

(b) by the insertion in subsection (7) (inserted by the Social Welfare Act, 1983 ) after “one-fifth of the appropriate weekly rate” of “subject to the total amount being paid at any time by virtue of this subsection being rounded up to the nearest 10p where it is a multiple of 5p but not also a multiple of 10p and being rounded to the nearest 10p where it is not a multiple of 5p or 10p”.

(3) (a) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the 20th day of July, 1987.

(b) Subsection (2) of this section shall come into operation on the 16th day of July, 1987.