S.I. No. 157/1954 - General Institutional and Specialist Services (Temporary) Regulations, 1954.

S.I. No. 157 of 1954.

GENERAL INSTITUTIONAL AND SPECIALIST SERVICES (TEMPORARY) REGULATIONS, 1954.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Health Acts, 1947 to 1954, hereby makes the following Regulations :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the General Institutional and Specialist Services (Temporary) Regulations, 1954.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1st day of August, 1954.

3. In these Regulations " the Act ", " institutional services " and " specialist services " shall have the same meaning as in the General Institutional and Specialist Services Regulations, 1954 ( S.I. No. 100 of 1954 ).

4.—(1) Until these Regulations are revoked, institutional services and specialist services shall be made available under subsection (1) of Section 15 of the Act only for persons who are—

(a) persons (being persons specified in subsection (2) of that section) who are unable to provide by their own industry or other lawful means the institutional or specialist services necessary for themselves or their dependents, and the dependents of such persons, and

(b) persons insured under the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), who, if on the 31st day of July, 1954, but by reference to their current circumstances for the purposes of insurance, they had duly claimed the hospital and convalescent home benefit which on the said 31st day of July stood prescribed under section 25 of that Act, would have been entitled to grant of their claim, and

(c) children (being dependents of persons specified in subsection (2) of Section 15 of the Act) in respect of defects discovered at a clinic at which a child welfare service is provided under Section 18 of the Act by a health authority which on the 31st day of July, 1954, provided, under an enactment repealed by the Act, institutional services for children in respect of defects discovered at a clinic,

and to no other persons.

(2) A person shall not be entitled to avail himself of institutional services by virtue of his being in the class mentioned in paragraph (b) of sub-article (1) of this Article for any continuous period exceeding two weeks in the case of such services given in a convalescent home.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this thirty-first day of July, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-four.

THOMAS F. O'HIGGINS,

Minister for Health.