Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1995

Lone parent's allowance.

8.—Section 157 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of the following paragraph:

“(b) a reference to a lone parent shall include a reference to a person who would otherwise be a lone parent but for the fact that the person's marriage has been dissolved, being a dissolution that is recognised as valid in the State.”.