Social Welfare (Pay-Related Benefit) Act, 1973

Right to pay-related benefit.

3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of the Acts, a person who had reckonable earnings in the relevant income tax year shall be entitled to pay-related benefit in respect of any day which—

(a) is a day of incapacity for work which forms part of a period of interruption of employment and in respect of which the person is entitled to disability benefit or maternity allowance or in respect of which the person would be entitled to benefit of either of those descriptions but for the fact that injury benefit is payable to the person under section 8 of the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Act, 1966 , in respect of that day, or

(b) is a day of unemployment which forms part of a period of interruption of employment and in respect of which the person is entitled to unemployment benefit,

and which is not earlier than the thirteenth day of incapacity for work or which is not earlier than the thirteenth day of unemployment, as the case may be, in the period of interruption of employment.

(2) In any period of interruption of employment a person shall not be entitled to pay-related benefit for any day of incapacity for work after the one hundred and fifty-ninth day of incapacity for work in that period or for any day of unemployment after the one hundred and fifty-ninth day of unemployment in that period.

(3) Any day in respect of which a person is entitled to maternity allowance shall be treated, for the purposes of this section, as a day of incapacity for work.