Social Welfare (Pay-Related Benefit) Act, 1975
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Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act. |
2.—Section 3 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by— | |
(a) the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection: | ||
“(2) In any period of interruption of employment a person shall not be entitled to pay-related benefit in respect of any day of incapacity for work after the two hundred and thirty-seventh day of incapacity for work in that period or in respect of any day of unemployment after the two hundred and thirty-seventh day of unemployment in that period.”, and | ||
(b) the substitution for subsection (4) (inserted by the Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1974) of the following subsection: | ||
“(4) In calculating for the purposes of this Act whether a person has had a specified number of days of incapacity for work or a specified number of days of unemployment in a period of interruption of employment, account shall not be taken of— | ||
(a) any day of incapacity for work in that period in respect of which the person was not paid disability benefit, maternity allowance or injury benefit, other than a day to which section 15 (2) of the Act of 1952 applies, or | ||
(b) any day of unemployment in that period in respect of which that person was not paid unemployment benefit, other than a day to which the said section 15 (2) applies.”. |