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Power to extend duration of pay-related benefit.
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5.—(1) The Minister may, whenever he so thinks fit, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, by order—
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(a) extend by any number of days not exceeding 78 days the number of days of incapacity for work and the number of days of unemployment in respect of which a person is entitled to pay-related benefit; and
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(b) specify the weekly rate at which pay-related benefit shall be payable in respect of the days for which it is payable by virtue of the order:
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Provided, however, that in any period of interruption of employment a person shall not be entitled by virtue of an order under this section to pay-related benefit in respect of any day of incapacity for work after the three hundred and fifteenth day of incapacity for work in that period or in respect of any day of unemployment after the three hundred and fifteenth day of unemployment in that period.
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(2) An order under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the order has been laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
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