Social Welfare Act, 1991
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Consequential amendments arising from revised conditions for receipt of old age (contributory) and retirement pensions. |
25.—(1) Section 2 (1) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for the definition of “entry into insurance” of the following definition: | |
“‘entry into insurance’ means, subject to sections 16 and 93 (6) and Chapters 7 and 8 of Part II, in relation to any person, the date on which he became an insured person;”. | ||
(2) Section 16 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (4) of the following subsection: | ||
“(5) For the purposes of this section ‘entry into insurance’ shall have the meaning assigned to it by section 78 (4) or (5).”. | ||
(3) Section 93 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (6) of the following subsection: | ||
“(6) Where a person becomes an employed contributor by virtue of paragraph (b) of section 5 (1) and would not, apart from that paragraph, be an employed contributor, his entry into insurance by virtue of that paragraph shall be deemed not to be an entry into insurance for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section and for those purposes his entry into insurance shall be deemed to occur when he first becomes an employed contributor by virtue of paragraph (a) of section 5 (1).”. |