Social Welfare Act, 1996

PART IX

Miscellaneous Amendments

Regulations (payment of benefit beyond pensionable age).

35.—Section 206 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (2) of the following subsection:

“(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, regulations may provide for payment of benefit, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions and for such periods as may be prescribed, to a claimant or beneficiary who has attained pensionable age.”.