Social Welfare (Pay-Related Benefit) Act, 1975

Transitional provision.

4.—(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Principal Act but subject to the provisions of subsection (1) of that section, where, in a period of interruption of employment which began before the commencement of this Act, a person has, before such commencement, received pay-related benefit and had not less than 159 days of incapacity for work, he shall be entitled to pay-related benefit in respect of each day, up to a maximum of 78 days, of incapacity for work occurring after such commencement but before the three hundred and sixteenth day of incapacity for work in that period of interruption of employment.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Principal Act but subject to the provisions of subsection (1) of that section, where, in a period of interruption of employment which began before the commencement of this Act, a person has, before such commencement, received pay-related benefit and had not less than 159 days of unemployment, he shall be entitled to pay-related benefit in respect of each day, up to a maximum of 78 days, of unemployment occurring after such commencement but before the three hundred and sixteenth day of unemployment in that period of interruption of employment.