Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1987

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Amendment of section 125 of Principal Act (payments after death).

17.—(1) Section 125 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of the following paragraph:

“(a) where a person who is in receipt of benefit which includes an increase in respect of an adult dependant dies, payment of the benefit shall continue to be made for a period of 6 weeks after the date of death and shall during that period be made to such person and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, and”.

(2) This section shall not apply in any case where the date of death occurs prior to the 1st day of January, 1988.