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S.I. No. 323/1979 - Social Welfare (Variation of Weekly Amounts of Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations, 1979.

S.I. No. 323 of 1979.

SOCIAL WELFARE (VARIATION OF WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF SUPPLEMENTARY WELFARE ALLOWANCE) REGULATIONS, 1979.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 10 (3) and 21 of the Social Welfare (Supplementary Welfare Allowances) Act, 1975 (No. 28 of 1975) hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Variation of Weekly Amounts of Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations, 1979.

2. The weekly amounts of supplementary welfare allowance are hereby varied with effect on and from the 1st day of October, 1979 by the substitution for the amounts set out in the Table to subsection (1) of section 10 of the Social Welfare (Supplementary Welfare Allowances) Act, 1975 (as amended by the Social Welfare Act, 1979 (No. 8 of 1979)) of the amounts set out in the Table to this article.

TABLE

WEEKLY AMOUNTS OF SUPPLEMENTARY WELFARE ALLOWANCE

Classes of persons to whom the amounts of supplementary welfare allowance are applicable

Weekly amount of supplementary welfare allowance

(1)

(2)

Person without a dependant

£13.70

Person with an adult dependant

£23.65

Person with an adult dependant and one child dependant

£28.05

Person with an adult dependant and two of more child dependants

£32.45

plus, where there are more than two child dependants, £3.40 for each child dependant in excess of two.

Person with one child dependant

£18.30

Person with two or more child dependants

£22.70

plus, where there are more than two child dependants, £3.40 for each child dependant in excess of two.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this

25th day of September, 1979.

CHARLES J. HAUGHEY,

Minister for Social Welfare.

The Minister for Finance hereby sanctions the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this

25th day of September, 1979.

SEOIRSE Ó COLLA,

Minister for Finance.