Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1965

Calculation of means of certain persons for purposes of unemployment assistance.

8.—(1) Subject to the provisions of sections 9 and 10 of this Act, the yearly value of any advantage accruing to a person who is resident in an area standing specified for the time being in an order under subsection (3) of this section from the use of land which is personally used or enjoyed by the person shall, for the purposes of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 13 of the Act of 1933, be deemed to be an amount calculated at the rate of twenty pounds for every pound of the rateable valuation of the land and at a proportionate rate for any portion of a pound of the valuation.

(2) (a) The Government may from time to time by order vary the rate specified in subsection (1) of this section.

(b) The Government may from time to time by order revoke or amend an order under this subsection, including an order under this paragraph.

(3) (a) The Government may from time to time by order specify areas for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.

(b) The Government may from time to time by order revoke or amend an order under this subsection, including an order under this paragraph.

(4) Every order made by the Government under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.