Social Welfare Act, 1993

Miscellaneous amendments to Principal Act arising from consolidation of various provisions.

38.—(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for “Subject to this Part,” of “Subject to this Act,” in each place where those words appear in sections 42 (1), 43 (1), 49 and 225 (1).

(2) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for “Subject to this Chapter,” of “Subject to this Act,” in each place where those words appear in sections 72 (1), 156A, 198H and 200.

(3) Section 45 (1) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for “The weekly rate of disablement pension” of “Subject to this Act, the weekly rate of disablement pension”.

(4) Section 125 (inserted by section 9 of the Act of 1991) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution in subsection (2) for “in this Part or Part III or regulations made thereunder” of “in this Act”.

(5) Section 158 (1) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for “Every person in whose case” of “Subject to this Act, every person in whose case”.

(6) Section 175 (1) (as amended by section 26 of the Act of 1984) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for “Every blind person” of “Subject to this Act, every blind person”.

(7) Section 195 (1) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for “A deserted wife's allowance shall, subject to regulations,” of “Subject to this Act and regulations, a deserted wife's allowance shall”.

(8) Section 196 (1) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for “A prisoner's wife's allowance shall, subject to regulations,” of “Subject to this Act and regulations, a prisoner's wife's allowance shall”.

(9) Section 31 of the Act of 1988 is hereby amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by the deletion of “Notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment,”, and

(b) in subsection (2), by the deletion of “Notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment,”.