Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1965
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Amendment of section 8 of Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1960. |
11.— Section 8 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1960 , is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection: | |
“(2) Where the pension of a person is appropriated under subsection (1) of this section, the person in charge, within the meaning of the aforesaid Act, of the place where the person is detained, or, if the person is detained in the Dundrum Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum, within the meaning of the aforesaid Act, the Resident Physician and Governor thereof may, in his absolute discretion, do either or both of the following, that is to say: | ||
(a) pay to the person for his own use such portion (not exceeding one pound per week) of the pension as he considers proper in the particular circumstances, if, in his opinion, the person is capable of making proper use of the portion so paid, | ||
(b) make out of the pension all or part of such of the following payments as the person in charge thinks proper in the circumstances to make and fall to be made by the person, that is to say, rent, ground rent, rates (including water rates), land purchase annuities, payments in respect of charges or mortgages, cottage purchase annuities, instalments payable under hire purchase or credit sale agreements and insurance or assurance premiums.” |