Social Welfare Act, 1997

Amendments consequential on section 19 .

20.—(1) Each provision of the Principal Act mentioned in column (1) of Schedule E to this Act is hereby amended in the manner specified in column (2) of that Schedule.

(2) In the Principal Act and in any other enactment every reference to a widow's (non-contributory) pension shall be construed as a reference to a widow's (non-contributory) pension or a widower's (non-contributory) pension, as the case may require.

(3) Section 150 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) thereof and the insertion of the following subsection:

“(2) In this section, ‘pension’ means a widow's (non-contributory) pension, a widower's (non-contributory) pension or an orphan's (non-contributory) pension, as the case may require.”.