S.I. No. 99/1993 - Social Welfare (Unemployment Assistance) Regulations, 1993.

S.I. No. 99 of 1993.

SOCIAL WELFARE (UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE) REGULATIONS, 1993.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 (No. 1 of the 1981) and by section 146 of that Act (as amended by section 13 of the Social Welfare Act, 1993 (No. 5 of 1993)) hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1 Short title and collective citation.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Unemployment Assistance) Regulations, 1993.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Unemployment Assistance) Regulations, 1992 shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Unemployment Assistance) Regulations 1992 to 1993.

2 Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 7th day of April, 1993.

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3. The Social Welfare (Unemployment Assistance) Regulations, 1992 ( S.I. No. 238 of 1992 ) are hereby amended by the insertion after article 7 of the following article:

"Earnings Disregard.

7A. (1) For each week in respect of which a person who is entitled to or in receipt of unemployment assistance earns moneys in respect of current personal employment under a contract of service, the amount prescribed for the purposes of subparagraph (xiii) of section 146 (1) (b) of the Principal Act shall be:

one sixth of the weekly rate appropriate to the case plus £15, in respect of each day in that week (excluding Sunday in which such moneys are so earned by him and in the case of moneys so earned by him on a Sunday, £15.

(2) For the purposes of this article the "weekly rate appropriate to the case" means the rate of unemployment assistance, calculated in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 2 of Part III of the Principal Act, which the claimant would otherwise have received if he did not have income from current personal employment under a contract of service.".

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this

6th day of April, 1993.

MICHAEL WOODS,

Minister Social Welfare.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing Regulations

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this

6th day of April, 1993.

BERTIE AHERN,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations provide for an earnings disregard in assessing income from insurable employment for the purposes of entitlement to Unemployment Assistance.

The regulations provide for a disregard equivalent to the recipient's daily rate of Unemployment Assistance lost as a consequence of having been employed for that day plus £15, in respect of each day worked.