S.I. No. 183/1969 - Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) (Amendment) Regulations, 1969.

S.I. No. 183 of 1969.

SOCIAL WELFARE (OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1969.

I, CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 2 and 3 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), and by sections 1 , 8 , 9 , 14 and 15 of the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Act, 1966 (No. 16 of 1966), hereby make the following Regulations :

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare Ocupational Injuries) (Amendment) Regulations, 1969.

(2) The Principal Regulations and these Regulations may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Regulations, 1967 and 1969.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 5th day of January, 1970: Provided that the amount of a disablement gratuity as provided by Article 5 shall be payable only when the period taken into account by the assessment of the degree of disablement begins on or after the 5th day of January, 1970, but nevertheless the weekly rate of pension so provided shall have effect as from the 5th day of January, 1970, whether the period taken into account by the assessment began before or on or after that date.

3. In these Regulations " the Principal Regulations " means the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Regulations, 1967 ( S.I. No. 77 of 1967 ).

4. In paragraph (a) of article 4 (2) of the Principal Regulations " 87 shillings and 6 pence " is hereby substituted for " 77 shillings and 6 pence " and in paragraph (b) thereof " 30 shillings " is hereby substituted for " 20 shillings ".

5. The Scale set out in the Schedule to these Regulations is hereby substituted for the Scale set out in the Second Schedule to the Principal Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Scale of Disablement Gratuities and of Weekly Rates of Pension in lieu of Disablement Gratuities

Degree of Disablement	Amount of Gratuity	Weekly rate of Pension
1 per cent	£42	1s. 3d.
2 " "	£63	2s. 6d.
3 " "	£84	3s. 9d.
4 " "	£105	5s. 0d.
5 " "	£126	6s. 3d.
6 " "	£147	7s. 6d.
7 " "	£168	8s. 9d.
8 " "	£189	10s. 0d.
9 " "	£210	11s. 3d.
10" "	£231	12s. 6d.
11" "	£252	13s. 9d.
12" "	£273	15s. 0d.
13'' ''	£294	16s. 3d.
14" "	£315	17s. 6d.
15" "	£336	18s. 9d.
16" "	£357	20s. 0d.
17" "	£378	21s. 3d.
18" "	£399	22s. 6d.
19" "	£420	23s. 9d.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 29th day of September, 1969.

CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1969 , makes provision for increases in the standard weekly rates of injury benefit and disablement pension appropriate to degrees of disablement of 20% to 100%.

These regulations amend the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Regulations, 1967, to provide for consequential increases in the weekly rates of injury benefit payable to persons under the age of sixteen, the amounts of disablement gratuities which are appropriate to degrees of disablement below 20% and the weekly rate of pension which may be substituted for each such gratuity.