Social Welfare Act, 1950

Amendment of section 81 of Act of 1911 and section 16 of National Health Insurance and Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act, 1936.

26.—(1) This section applies to the following enactments:

(a) subsections (10) and (11) of section 81 of the Act of 1911 as amended by subsection (2) of section 16 of the Social Welfare Act, 1948 (No. 17 of 1948), and

(b) paragraph (d) of section 16 of the National Health Insurance and Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act, 1936 (No. 12 of 1936).

(2) In the case of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1950, and of every subsequent year, the amount to be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas into the Fund pursuant to the enactments to which this section applies shall, in lieu of being the amount appropriate in accordance with those enactments, be forty-four thousand pounds.

(3) The amounts paid before the passing of this Act out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas into the Fund in respect of the year which ended on the 31st day of December, 1948, and in respect of the year which ended on the 31st day of December, 1949, pursuant to the enactments to which this section applies shall be deemed to be the amounts due and payable up to the passing of this Act in accordance with those enactments in respect of those years, and, accordingly, no adjustments shall fall to be made with respect to those amounts.