Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009
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Regulations. |
36.— (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (11), the Minister may, for the purposes of enabling any provision of this Act to have full effect, make regulations prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed. | |
(2) The Minister may, following prior consultation with the Executive and with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make regulations for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section 33 by prescribing, by reference to a class of care services, a class of costs which, although not directly attributable to the provision of such class of care services, the Minister is satisfied is connected with, the provision of such class of care services. | ||
(3) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of “allowable deduction” in paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 by prescribing a class or classes of expenditure which relate to the reasonable living expenses of a person to whom the financial assessment relates and his or her partner or who is a member of a class of dependant relatives prescribed by those regulations. | ||
(4) (a) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of prescribing an amount for the purposes of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of the definition of “general assets deductible amount ” in paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 which amount— | ||
(i) shall not be less than the amount referred to in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of that definition, | ||
(ii) shall not be less than the amount prescribed on the most recent exercise of this power, and | ||
(iii) shall be adjusted in line with changes in the consumer price index calculated from mid-May 2008 where the amount specified in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of that definition is the base figure. | ||
(b) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of prescribing an amount for the purposes of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of the definition of “general assets deductible amount” in paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 which amount— | ||
(i) shall not be less than the amount referred to in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of that definition, | ||
(ii) shall not be less than the amount prescribed on the most recent exercise of this power, and | ||
(iii) shall be adjusted in line with changes in the consumer price index calculated from mid-May 2008 where the amount specified in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of that definition is the base figure. | ||
(5) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of paragraph (j) of the definition of “income” in paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 by prescribing a class or classes of benefit not coming within paragraphs (a) to (i) of that definition but which the Minister considers to be a form of income, and for the purposes of this subsection benefit shall include capital gains. | ||
(6) Without prejudice to the generality of section 26 (8), the Minister may, following prior consultation with the Revenue Commissioners and with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make regulations providing for the conferral of powers on the Revenue Commissioners with respect to the collection and recovery of repayable amounts within the meaning of section 26 (1) and interest thereon (and, for this purpose, the regulations may adapt, with or without modifications, the provisions of any enactment relating to the collection or recovery of, or the inspection of records or the furnishing of information in relation to, any tax charged or imposed by that enactment). | ||
(7) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (6), regulations made under that subsection may, in respect of amounts referred to in that subsection, provide for— | ||
(a) the form in which payment shall be made, | ||
(b) the charging of interest and the appropriate percentage rate of interest to be charged, | ||
(c) circumstances where interest shall not be charged, | ||
(d) the period of time following the occurrence of the event which caused the amounts to become repayable in respect of which interest shall not be charged, | ||
(e) the order of application of any payment towards interest or capital comprised in such amounts, | ||
(f) any matters consequential on, or incidental to, the foregoing. | ||
(8) The Minister may, in respect of any difficulty which arises during the period of 3 years from the commencement of section 5 in bringing this Act into operation, by regulations do anything which appears to be necessary or expedient for bringing this Act into operation and regulations under this subsection may, in so far only as may appear necessary for carrying the regulations into effect, modify a provision of this Act if the modification is in conformity with the purposes, principles and spirit of this Act. | ||
(9) Regulations under this section may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations. | ||
(10) Where the Minister proposes to make regulations under subsection (8)— | ||
(a) he or she shall, before doing so, consult with such other (if any) Minister of the Government as the Minister considers appropriate having regard to the functions of that other Minister of the Government in relation to the proposed regulations, and | ||
(b) he or she shall cause a draft of the regulations to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the regulations shall not be made until a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by each such House. | ||
(11) Every regulation made under this section (other than a regulation referred to in subsection (10)) shall be laid by the Minister before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder. |