Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2005

Old age (contributory) pension — amendment to definition of “homemaker”.

22.—Section 83 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (2), in the definition of “homemaker” (inserted by section 24 of the Act of 1996), by substituting the following for subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c):

“(ii) resides with and provides full-time care and attention to a person who is so incapacitated as to require full-time care and attention within the meaning of section 163(3), or

(iii) subject to the conditions and in the circumstances that may be prescribed, does not reside with but provides full-time care and attention to a person who is so incapacitated as to require full-time care and attention within the meaning of section 163(3),

and,”.