Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Act 2013

Amendment of section 48A of Health Act 1970

2. Section 48A of the Health Act 1970 is amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following for subsection (1):

“(1) Where a person is notified by the Health Service Executive that he or she has full eligibility under this Part by reason of section 45(5A) or 45A, he or she shall, if requested to do so by the Health Service Executive at any time after such notification, furnish to the Health Service Executive such information regarding that person’s income and assets as the Health Service Executive considers necessary for it to establish if that person has or continues to have full eligibility.”,

and

(b) by the insertion after subsection (3) of the following subsection:

“(4) A person—

(a) who by reason of section 45(5A) or 45A had, prior to 1 January 2014, been notified by the Health Service Executive that he or she had full eligibility under this Part,

(b) who continued to have such full eligibility until 31 December 2013, and

(c) who by reason of the amendments to section 45A effected by section 1 of the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Act 2013 ceases to have such eligibility,

shall retain such eligibility until 28 February 2014.”.