Social Welfare Act, 1988

Amounts payable for injury benefit and unemployment assistance.

24.—(1) Section 42 of the Principal Act (which relates to entitlement to injury benefit) is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (5) of the following subsection:

“(5) The amount payable by way of injury benefit for any day of incapacity shall be one-sixth of the appropriate weekly rate subject to the total amount being paid at any time by virtue of this subsection being rounded up to the nearest 10p where it is a multiple of 5p but not also a multiple of 10p and being rounded to the nearest 10p where it is not a multiple of 5p or 10p.”.

(2) Section 150 of the Principal Act (which relates to the payment of unemployment assistance) is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (2) of the following subsection:

“(3) The amount payable by way of unemployment assistance for any day of unemployment shall be one-sixth of the appropriate weekly rate subject to the total amount being paid at any time by virtue of this subsection being rounded up to the nearest 10p where it is a multiple of 5p but not also a multiple of 10p and being rounded to the nearest 10p where it is not a multiple of 5p or 10p.”.

(3) (a) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the 25th day of July, 1988, and

(b) subsection (2) of this section shall come into operation on the 20th day of July, 1988.