Social Welfare Act, 1991

PART VII

Miscellaneous

Social assistance schemes, means test exemptions.

41.—(1) Section 146 (1) (b) (inserted by section 13 of the No. 2 Act of 1985) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subparagraph (viii) of the following subparagraphs:

“(viiiA) any moneys received from a charitable organisation, being a body whose activities are carried on otherwise than for profit (but excluding any public or local authority) and one of whose functions is to assist persons in need by making grants of money to them,

(viiiB) any income arising from employment of a casual nature by a health board as a home help,”.

(2) Section 210 (2) (a) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subparagraph (iii) (inserted by section 9 of the Act of 1984) of the following subparagraphs:

“(iv) any moneys received from a charitable organisation, being a body whose activities are carried on otherwise than for profit (but excluding any public or local authority) and one of whose functions is to assist persons in need by making grants of money to them,

(v) any income arising from employment of a casual nature by a health board as a home help;”.

(3) Paragraph (4) of Rule 1 of the Third Schedule to the Principal Act is hereby amended by—

(a) the substitution in clause (i) of subparagraph (d) for “any income” of “any moneys”,

(b) the substitution in subparagraph (j) of “as an outworker” for “of the kind referred to in paragraph 7 of Part I of the First Schedule”, and

(c) the insertion after subparagraph (j) of the following subparagraph:

“(jj) any income arising from employment of a casual nature by a health board as a home help,”.

(4) Section 2 (1) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after the definition of “orphan” of the following definition:

“‘outworker’ means a person to whom articles or materials are given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished or repaired or adapted for sale in his own home or on other premises not under the control or management of the person who gave out the articles or materials for the purposes of the trade or business of the last-mentioned person;”.

(5) Section 146 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution in subparagraph (x) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of “as an outworker” for “of the kind referred to in paragraph 7 of Part I of the First Schedule”.