Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1995

Deserted wife's allowance.

6.—Section 152 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (2) of the following subsections:

“(3) Subject to this Chapter, a woman who has been deserted by her husband shall, for the purposes of this Chapter, continue to be regarded as a deserted wife where her marriage has been dissolved, being a dissolution that is recognised as valid in the State.

(4) A deserted wife's allowance shall, subject to this Chapter, continue to be payable to a woman unless she remarries and in such a case the allowance shall cease as and from her remarriage.

(5) For the purposes of this Chapter, ‘husband’ in relation to a woman who has been married more than once, refers only to her last husband and for this purpose that last husband shall be construed as including the man to whom, but for the fact that the marriage has been dissolved, being a dissolution that is recognised as valid in the State, she would be married.”.