S.I. No. 186/1970 - Social Welfare (Prescribed Female Relative) (Amendment) Regulations, 1970.

S.I. No. 186 of 1970.

SOCIAL WELFARE (PRESCRIBED FEMALE RELATIVE) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1970.

The Minister for Social Welfare in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), section 26 (4) of the said Act (inserted by section 9 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1968 (No. 31 of 1968)) as amended by section 15 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1969 (No. 19 of 1969) and section 77 (5) of the said Act (inserted by section 16 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1969 , hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Prescribed Female Relative) (Amendment) Regulations, 1970.

(2) The Principal Regulations and these Regulations may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Prescribed Female Relative) Regulations, 1969 and 1970.

2. In these Regulations " The Principal Regulations " means the Social Welfare (Prescribed Female Relative) Regulations, 1969 ( S.I. No. 268 of 1969 ).

3. Article 6 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution—

of "18" for "16" in each place where this numeral occurs in paragraph (a) thereof and,

for paragraph (c) thereof of the following paragraph—

" (c) the prescribed female relative shall not be in receipt of or entitled to receive—

(i) unemployment benefit, unemployment assistance, disability benefit, maternity allowance, injury benefit, unemployability supplement, death benefit by way of widow's pension or death benefit by way of parent's pension at the higher rate under the Act of 1966, or

(ii) old age pension, old age (contributory) pension, invalidity pension, retirement pension, or widow's (contributory) pension, or

(iii) widow's (non-contributory) pension or deserted wife's allowance where such pension or allowance is or would be equal to or greater than the increase in respect of a prescribed female relative ".

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this 7th

day of August, 1970.

JOSEPH BRENNAN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Social Welfare Act, 1970 , makes provision, inter alia, for the introduction of schemes for invalidity and retirement pensions and deserted wife's allowance and for the raising of the age limit for a qualified child for the purposes of most social welfare schemes from 16 to 18 years. As a consequence of these provisions the conditions specified in Article 6 of the Social Welfare (Prescribed Female Relative) Regulations, 1969, to be fulfilled in respect of the payment of the increase in pension for a prescribed female relative are being adjusted by these Regulations to bring them into line with this new legislation.