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Number 2 of 2008
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SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2008
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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PART 1
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Preliminary and General
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Section
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1. Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.
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PART 2
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Amendment of Social Welfare Acts
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2. Definitions.
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3. Child benefit — new rates.
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4. Early childcare supplement — increase in rate.
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5. Transfer of pension rights to EC institutions scheme.
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6. Illness benefit — improvement.
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7. State pension (non-contributory) — improvements.
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8. One-parent family payment — increase in income limit and amendment.
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9. Respite care grant — increase.
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10. Detention in legal custody.
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11. State pension (contributory) — homemakers.
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12. Blind welfare allowance.
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13. Blind welfare allowance — consequential amendments.
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14. Blind welfare allowance — commencement and transitional.
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15. Domiciliary care allowance.
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16. Domiciliary care allowance — consequential amendments.
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17. Domiciliary care allowance — commencement and transitional.
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18. Supplementary welfare allowance.
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19. Claims.
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20. Payments to persons other than claimant or beneficiary.
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21. Provisions with respect to habitual residence.
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22. Proceedings.
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23. Schedule 3, Part 2.
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24. Supplementary welfare allowance — calculation of weekly means.
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25. Amendments of Act of 2007.
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PART 3
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Amendment of Pensions Act 1990
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26. Definitions.
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27. Registered administrators.
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28. Trustee training.
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29. Miscellaneous amendments of Pensions Act 1990.
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PART 4
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Amendment of Other Acts
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30. Amendment of Family Law Act 1995.
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31. Amendment of Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996.
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SCHEDULE 1
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Amendments Relating to Supplementary Welfare Allowance
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SCHEDULE 2
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Formal Amendments of the Pensions Act 1990
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Acts Referred to
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Blind Persons Act 1920
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10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 49
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Children Act 2001
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2001, No. 24
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Companies Act 1990
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1990, No. 33
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Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006
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2006, No. 11
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Family Law Act 1995
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1995, No. 26
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Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996
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1996, No. 33
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Health Act 1947
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1947, No. 28
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Health Act 1970
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1970, No. 1
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Health Contributions Act 1979
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1979, No. 4
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Lunacy (Ireland) Act 1821
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1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. 33
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Mental Health Act 2001
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2001, No. 25
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Pensions (Amendment) Act 1996
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1996, No. 18
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Pensions (Amendment) Act 2002
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2002, No. 18
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Pensions Act 1990
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1990, No. 25
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Pensions Acts 1990 to 2006
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Social Welfare Acts
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Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007
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2007, No. 8
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Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005
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2005, No. 26
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Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006
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2006, No. 5
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Taxes Consolidation Act 1997
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1997, No. 39
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Trial of Lunatics Act 1883
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46 & 47 Vic., c. 38
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Number 2 of 2008
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SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2008
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS AND THE PENSIONS ACT 1990 AND TO MAKE RELATED AMENDMENTS OF THE FAMILY LAW ACT 1995 AND THE FAMILY LAW (DIVORCE) ACT 1996.
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[7th March, 2008]
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
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