Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Act 2020
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PART 2 Amendments to Principal Act | ||
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Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act | ||
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4. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following definitions: | ||
“ ‘Act of 2020’ means the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 ; | ||
‘Covid-19’ means a disease caused by infection with the virus SARS-CoV-2 and specified as an infectious disease in accordance with Regulation 6 of, and the Schedule to, the Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981 ( S.I. No. 390 of 1981 ) or any variant of the disease so specified as an infectious disease in those Regulations; | ||
‘Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment’ means the payment referred to in section 68L; | ||
‘temporary wage subsidy’ has the same meaning as it has in section 28 of the Act of 2020;”. |