Social Welfare Act, 1970

Death grant.

5.—The following section is hereby inserted in the Act of 1952 as section 25B:

“Death Grant

25B. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a death grant shall be payable, to such person or persons as may be prescribed, on the death of—

(a) an insured person,

(b) the wife or husband of an insured person,

(c) the widow or widower of a deceased insured person, or

(d) a qualified child,

if the relevant contribution conditions are satisfied, but only one death grant shall be paid by virtue of this section on any one death.

(2) For the purposes of this section, item 3 of Part II of the Third Schedule to this Act and paragraph 7 of the Fourth Schedule thereto ‘qualified child’ means a person—

(a) who is under the age of eighteen at the date of death,

(b) who is ordinarily resident in the State on that date, and

(c) in respect of whose death the relevant contribution conditions for death grant are not satisfied by such person's insurance or the insurance of such person's wife or husband.”