Social Welfare Act, 1999
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Volunteer development workers— extension of entitlement. |
24.—(1) Section 32 (9) (inserted by section 12 of the No. (2) Act of 1993) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for “next suceeding benefit year” of “next two succeeding benefit years”. | |
(2) Section 43 (7) (inserted by section 13 of the No. (2) Act of 1993) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for “next succeeding benefit year” of “next two succeeding benefit years”. | ||
(3) Section 41B (inserted by the European Communities (Social Welfare) Regulations, 1995 ( S.I. No. 25 of 1995 )) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (4) of the following subsection: | ||
“(5) The requirement contained in subsection (1)(b) that the claimant must have prescribed reckonable weekly earnings in excess of a prescribed amount in the prescribed period shall not apply in the case of a claim for health and safety benefit made by a person in the benefit year in which that person, having been a volunteer development worker, returns to the State from a developing country or in the next two succeeding benefit years.” |