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Disqualification from benefit while absent from State or undergoing imprisonment, etc.
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22.—(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for section 211 of the following section:
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“211.—(1) Subject to section 192, a person shall be disqualified from receiving—
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(a) any benefit (including any increase thereof) while that person is absent from the State or is undergoing penal servitude, imprisonment or detention in legal custody, or
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(b) any increase of benefit payable in respect of that person's spouse for any period during which that spouse is absent from the State or is undergoing penal servitude, imprisonment or detention in legal custody.
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(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations enabling payment of any benefit or assistance to be made, subject to such conditions and in such circumstances as may be prescribed, to or in respect of any person who is absent from the State or is undergoing penal servitude, imprisonment or detention in legal custody.”.
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(2) This section shall come into operation on such day as the Minister may appoint by order.
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