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Family income supplement (interpretation).
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47.—(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for section 232A (inserted by section 13 of the Act of 1984) of the following section:
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“Interpretation.
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232A.—In this Part—
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‘child’, in relation to a family, means a qualified child as defined in section 2 (1) who normally resides with that family;
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‘couple’ means a married couple or a man and woman who are not married to each other but are cohabiting as man and wife;
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‘family’ means—
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(a) a person who is engaged in remunerative full-time employment as an employee, and
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(b) where such person is one of a couple living with or wholly or mainly maintaining his or her spouse, that spouse, and
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(c) a child or children;
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‘family income supplement’ shall be construed in accordance with section 232B;
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‘spouse’ means each person of a couple in relation to the other;
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‘weekly family income’ means, subject to regulations under section 232F, the amount of income received in a week by a family, less any income of a person who in respect of that family is a child.”.
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(2) This section shall come into operation on the 24th day of October, 1991.
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