Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2017

Amendment of Schedule 1 to Act of 2009

8. Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 2009 is amended, in paragraph 1, by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “relevant payment” (inserted by section 4 of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 ):

“ ‘relevant payment’ means, in relation to a person—

(a) a payment or payments made to the person under the Scheme, made by the Government in December 2013 and for the time being administered by the Minister for Justice and Equality, providing for the making of ex-gratia payments to women who were admitted to and worked in a relevant institution (within the meaning of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 ), and includes any benefit provided under that Scheme,

(b) an ex-gratia payment or payments made to the person under the terms of the Scheme referred to as the Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme 2007,

(c) an ex-gratia payment or payments made to the person under the terms of the Scheme established by the Minister and referred to as the Lourdes Hospital Payment Scheme,

(d) a payment or payments made to the person under the terms of the Surgical Symphysiotomy ex-gratia Scheme established by the Minister and otherwise referred to as the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme,

(e) an ex-gratia payment or payments made to the person by the Minister or the Conterganstiftung für behinderte Menschen in respect of a disability caused to that person by Thalidomide, or

(f) such other ex-gratia payment or payments as may be prescribed under section 36(5A) (inserted by section 7 of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2017) for the purposes of this paragraph;”.