Social Welfare Act, 1994
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Amendment of Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981. |
35.—(1) The Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981 (as extended by section 25 of the Labour Services Act, 1987 ), is hereby amended by— | |
(a) the substitution for paragraph (c) of section 16 of the following paragraph: | ||
“(c) if the employed contributor has, by virtue of section 45 of the Act of 1970, full eligibility for services under Part IV of that Act, the levy referred to in paragraph (a) shall not be payable.”, and | ||
(b) the insertion after section 18 of the following section: | ||
“Exemption from and refund of levy. | ||
18A.—(1) An individual referred to in section 15 shall not be liable to pay the levy— | ||
(a) in respect of any payment on account of emoluments made in a contribution year if his reckonable income consists of emoluments only in that year and the amount of the payment does not exceed an amount equal to £173 where the period in respect of which the payment is made is a week or a corresponding amount where the period in respect of which the payment is made is greater or less than a week, or | ||
(b) in respect of his reckonable income for a contribution year if such income does not consist of emoluments only and the amount of that income does not exceed £9,000 in that year. | ||
(2) Where an individual's reckonable income for a contribution year did not exceed £9,000, any levy deducted from emoluments forming part of that reckonable income shall be repaid to that individual.”. | ||
(2) This section shall come into operation on the 6th day of April, 1994. |