Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005
PART 4 Child Benefit | ||
Qualified child. [1993 s192(1); 1995 s5(2)] |
219.—(1) A child shall be a qualified child (in this Part referred to as “a qualified child”) for the purposes of child benefit where— | |
(a) he or she is under the age of 16 years, or | ||
(b) having attained the age of 16 years he or she is under the age of 19 years and— | ||
(i) is receiving full-time education, the circumstances of which shall be specified in regulations, or | ||
(ii) is, by reason of physical or mental infirmity, incapable of self-support and likely to remain so incapable for a prolonged period, | ||
and | ||
(c) he or she is ordinarily resident in the State, and | ||
(d) he or she is not detained in a reformatory or an industrial school and is not undergoing imprisonment or detention in legal custody. | ||
[1993 s192(2); 1996 s5(5)] |
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a child who resides with a qualified person and that person’s spouse while the qualified person or that person’s spouse— | |
(a) being a member of the Defence Forces or a civil servant in the civil service of the Government or the State, is in the service, outside the State, of the Government, the State or an international organisation, | ||
(b) is a volunteer development worker, or | ||
(c) is an insured person employed outside the State in respect of whom employment contributions under Part 2 are payable in accordance with regulations made under section 31 , | ||
shall be a qualified child for the purposes of this Part. |