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Continued payment for qualified children.
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7.—The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for section 203A (inserted by section 7 of the Act of 1996) of the following section:
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“Entitlement to payment.
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203A.—(1) Subject to this Act, a continued payment for qualified children (in this Part referred to as a ‘continued payment’) shall be payable out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas to a person—
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(a) other than a person who is engaged in short-time employment, who—
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(i) has been in receipt of unemployment benefit, unemployment assistance, or unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance in respect of not less than 312 days of unemployment in—
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(A) a period of interruption of employment, within the meaning of section 42 (4) (c), where the person is in receipt of unemployment benefit, or
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(B) a continuous period of unemployment, within the meaning of section 120(3), where the person is in receipt of unemployment assistance,
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in the immediately preceding period, and
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(ii) is in receipt of unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance which includes an increase in respect of at least one qualified child, who normally resides with the person, and is not a person to whom sections 45 (3), 124 (1) or 245A (3) (as the case may require) applies, or
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(b) who is engaged in employment under a scheme administered by an Foras Áiseanna Saothair and known as Community Employment and who, if he or she were in receipt of unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance would be entitled to an increase in respect of at least one qualified child who normally resides with him or her and would not be a person to whom section 45 (3), 124 (1) or 245A (3) (as the case may require), applies, and
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(c) who, in the case of a person to whom paragraph (a) or (b) applies, ceases, by virtue of having become engaged in employment which is expected to continue for a period of a minimum of 4 weeks, to be entitled to unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance or ceases to be engaged in Community Employment.
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(2) In this Part, ‘employment’ means insurable employment or insurable self-employment, other than—
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(a) employment under a scheme administered by an Foras Áiseanna Saothair and known as Community Employment,
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(b) employment under any scheme which is funded by an Foras Áiseanna Saothair, other than a scheme known as the Jobs Initiatives Scheme, or
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(c) employment of a seasonal nature.”.
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