Social Welfare Act, 1980
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Unemployment assistance (removal of 6 months' residence qualification). |
8.—(1) Section 10 of the Act of 1933 is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (3) of the following subsection: | |
“(3) The conditions referred to in subsection (2) of this section as the conditions to be fulfilled by a person applying for a qualification certificate are— | ||
(a) that he is at the date of the application resident in the State; | ||
(b) that he has attained the age of 18 years and has not attained the age of 66 years; | ||
(c) that his means, calculated in accordance with this Act, do not exceed an amount per annum equal to 52 times— | ||
(i) the rate of unemployment assistance set out at reference 1A (1) of Part I of the Eighth Schedule (inserted by the Social Welfare Act, 1980) to the Social Welfare Act, 1952 , applicable to a person who has an adult dependant and is resident in an urban area, and | ||
(ii) in case he has a qualified child (as defined in section 2 (1) of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 ) or qualified children, so much of the unemployment assistance set out at reference 1A (1) of Part I of the said Eighth Schedule applicable to the person as would be payable in respect of that child or those children, as the case may be; | ||
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(d) in the case of a married woman either— | ||
(i) that her husband is a dependant of her, or | ||
(ii) that neither she nor her husband is a dependant of the other and she has one or more dependants.”. | ||
(2) This section shall come into operation on the 2nd day of April, 1980. |