Social Welfare Act, 1992

Discontinuance of pay-related benefit for periods of incapacity for work.

34.—(1) Section 72 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—

(a) the substitution for subsection (1) (as amended by section 11 of the Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1987 ) of the following subsection:

“(1) Subject to this Chapter, a person who had reckonable earnings in the relevant income tax year shall be entitled to pay-related benefit in respect of any day which is a day of unemployment which forms part of a period of interruption of employment and in respect of which the person is entitled to unemployment benefit and which is not earlier than the 19th day of unemployment in the period of interruption of employment.”, and

(b) the deletion of subsection (2).

(2) Section 73 (as amended by section 16 of the Act of 1991 and section 9 ) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the deletion of “, for any part of that period up to the 393rd day of incapacity for work or”.

(3) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for section 74 of the following section:

“74. (1) In any period of interruption of employment a person shall not be entitled to pay-related benefit in respect of any day of unemployment after the 393rd day of unemployment in that period.

(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 unemployment, account shall be taken of only 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 purposes of section 73.”.

(4) This section shall come into operation on such day as the Minister may appoint by order.

(5) This section shall not apply to any period of interruption of employment in respect of incapacity for work in respect of which a person is in receipt of disability benefit (or would be in receipt of disability benefit but for the fact that injury benefit is payable to the person) and which commences before the date appointed for the commencement of this section.