Social Welfare Act, 1990

PART VII

Miscellaneous Amendments

Amendment of section 22 of Principal Act (duration of payment).

32.— Section 22 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (3) of the following subsection:

“(4) Where a person has qualifying contributions in respect of not less than 260 contribution weeks on the 312th day on which benefit is paid in respect of a period of incapacity for work, and he would be entitled to disability benefit but for the fact that the contribution condition set out in subsection (1) (b) of section 19 is not satisfied, he shall be deemed to satisfy that contribution condition in respect of every subsequent day of incapacity in that period of incapacity for work.”.