Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019
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PART 3 Amendments to other Acts | ||
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Amendment of section 10D of National Minimum Wage Act 2000 | ||
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28. (1) The National Minimum Wage Act 2000 is amended, in section 10D (inserted by section 8 of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Act 2015 )— | ||
(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1): | ||
“(1A) Where the Minister— | ||
(a) having received a recommendation and report submitted to him or her under section 10C(2), having considered the report and recommendation and, having had regard to section 10C(3), has declined to make an order in accordance with subsection (1) (b), and | ||
(b) has, in accordance with subsection (2) (b), prepared and laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas a statement of his or her reasons for declining to make such order, | ||
the Minister may by order declare a national minimum hourly rate of pay in the terms recommended by the Commission or in other terms.”, | ||
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(b) in subsection (2) — | ||
(i) in paragraph (a), by the deletion of “or”, and | ||
(ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a): | ||
“(ab) by order declares a national minimum hourly rate of pay in accordance with subsection (1A), or”. | ||
(2) The amendments effected by subsection (1) shall come into operation on the passing of this Act and shall cease to have effect on the date on which a recommendation under section 10C of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 is next made to the Minister. |