Social Welfare Act, 1950

Modification and application of enactments.

20.—(1) Every provision of or made under the Acts shall, subject to any order under subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section, have effect with such modifications and adaptations as may be necessary for giving effect to this Part of this Act.

(2) The Minister may by order make, in respect of any provision of or made under the Acts, such modifications and adaptations as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for giving effect to this Part of this Act.

(3) The Minister may by order make such applications (whether with or without modifications) to National Health Insurance of any provisions of or made under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1948, or the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 to 1948, as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for giving effect to this Part of this Act and any provisions so applied shall have effect notwithstanding any provisions of or made under the Act.

(4) Every order under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if either such House, within the next twenty-one days on which it sits after the order is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling the order, the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

(5) An order under this section which will affect accounts or moneys of the Society or of the Fund shall be subject to the sanction of the Minister for Finance.