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Disqualification from certain payments while participating in Community Employment.
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12.— (1) The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following section after section 247A (inserted by section 27 of the Act of 2010):
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“Disqualification from certain payments while participating in Community Employment.
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247B.— (1) A person shall be disqualified from receiving—
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(a) any benefit specified in section 39(1), other than—
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(i) disablement benefit payable in accordance with section 75,
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(ii) death benefit by way of a grant in respect of funeral expenses,
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(iii) bereavement grant, and
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(iv) widowed or surviving civil partner grant,
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(b) an increase, payable under section 77, in disablement pension on account of incapacity,
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(c) any assistance specified in section 139(1), other than—
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(i) supplementary welfare allowance in so far as it relates to the payment of a supplement towards the amount of rent payable by a person in respect of his or her residence in accordance with section 198,
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(ii) supplementary welfare allowance in so far as it relates to the payment of that allowance in accordance with section 200, 201, 202 or 206, and
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(iii) a widowed or surviving civil partner grant,
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and
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(d) infectious diseases maintenance allowance,
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for any week or part of a week during which he or she is employed under a scheme provided by the Minister and known as Community Employment.
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(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a person receiving any benefit, increase, assistance or allowance specified in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (1) while he or she is employed under a Community Employment scheme where the period of employment under that Community Employment scheme commenced before 16 January 2012.”.
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(2) This section comes into operation on 16 January 2012.
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