Social Welfare Act, 1993

Interpretation generally.

39.—(1) Section 2 (1) (as amended by the Act of 1992) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—

(a) the insertion of the following definitions:

“‘claimant’ means a person who has made a claim for any benefit, assistance, child benefit or family income supplement, as the case may be;

‘Member State’ means a Member State of the European Communities;

‘social welfare inspector’ means a person appointed by the Minister under section 294F to be a social welfare inspector for the purposes of Parts II, III (other than Chapter 6), IV, IVA, VIIA and X;

‘statutory declaration’ means a statutory declaration within the meaning of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1938 ;”, and

(b) the substitution for the definitions of “beneficiary” and “benefit” of the following definitions:

“‘beneficiary’ means a person entitled to any benefit, assistance, child benefit or family income supplement, as the case may be;

‘benefit’ means, subject to section 125 and Part VIIA, benefit under Part II;”, and

(c) the deletion of the definition of “Inspector”.

(2) Section 2 (7) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the deletion in paragraph (a) of “in lawful wedlock”.

(3) For the purposes of the Principal Act every reference to—

“inspector” shall be construed as a reference to “social welfare inspector”,

“social welfare officer” shall be construed as a reference to “social welfare inspector”.

(4) Section 51 (7) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the deletion of paragraph (b).

(5) Section 199 (as amended by section 45 of the Act of 1991) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the deletion of the definition of “recipient”.

(6) For the purposes of Chapter 2 (inserted by section 27 of the Act of 1992) and Chapter 6 of Part III of the Principal Act, any reference to “recipient” shall be construed as a reference to “beneficiary”.

(7) For the purposes of Chapter 2 (inserted by section 27 of the Act of 1992) of Part III of the Principal Act, any reference to “applicant” shall be construed as a reference to “claimant”.

(8) For the purposes of the Principal Act any reference to that Act shall be construed as including regulations made under or applying the provisions of the said Act.