Social Welfare Act, 2000

Entitlement to unemployment assistance.

27.—(1) Section 125(1) of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution for paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of the following paragraphs:

“(a) an inmate of an institution maintained wholly or partly out of public moneys or by a local authority, or

(b) employed during any week under a scheme administered by An Foras áiseanna Saothair and known as Community Employment.”.

(2) Subsection (2) of section 125 of the Principal Act is repealed.

(3) This section comes into operation on such day as the Minister may appoint by order.