Social Welfare Act, 1996

Transitional provisions.

14.—(1) Notwithstanding Chapter 12 (inserted by section 13 of this Act) of Part III of the Principal Act, where, immediately before the commencement of this Part, a person is in receipt of a maintenance allowance provided for under section 69 of the Health Act, 1970 , disability allowance shall be payable to that person on and from that commencement at a rate not less than the rate of maintenance allowance which is payable to him immediately before that commencement.

(2) Any determination by an officer of a health board in relation to the award of a maintenance allowance to a person under section 69 of the Health Act, 1970 , before the commencement of this Part shall be deemed to be a decision by a deciding officer to award disability allowance to such person on and from that commencement.

(3) Where immediately before the commencement of this Part, a person has applied for a maintenance allowance under section 69 of the Health Act, 1970 , and that application has not been finally determined, any such application shall be deemed to be an application for disability allowance.