Old Age Pensions Act, 1932

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR No. 18/1932
• Year: 1932

Number 18 of 1932.
OLD AGE PENSIONS ACT, 1932.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section 1. Definitions. 2. Substitution of new statutory condition. 3. Calculation of means of husband or wife. 4. Amendment of section 5 of the Act of 1911. 5. Application of Section 4 (1) (a) of the Act of 1919. 6. Pensions for blind persons over 30. 7. Saving for existing pensions. 8. Pensions committee or sub-committee a local authority for certain purposes. 9. Repeals. 10. Short title, construction, citation and commencement.
SCHEDULE.
Acts Referred to Old Age Pensions Act, 1924 No. 19 of 1924 Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 No. 9 of 1923
Number 18 of 1932.
OLD AGE PENSIONS ACT, 1932.
AN ACT TO AMEND THE OLD AGE PENSIONS ACTS, 1908 TO 1928, AND THE BLIND PERSONS ACT, 1920 . [2nd August, 1932.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—
	Definitions.	1.—In this Act—
	the expression “the Act of 1908” means the Old Age Pensions Act, 1908;
	the expression “the Act of 1911” means the Old Age Pensions Act, 1911;
	the expression “the Act of 1919” means the Old Age Pensions Act, 1919;
	the expression “the Act of 1924” means the Old Age Pensions Act, 1924 (No. 19 of 1924).
	Substitution of new statutory condition.	2.—(1) In lieu of the second statutory condition contained in paragraph (2) (repealed by this Act) of section 2 of the Act of 1908 it is hereby enacted that it shall be a condition for the receipt of an old age pension by any person that he shall satisfy the pension authorities that he has had his residence in Saorstát Eireann for an aggregate period of not less than thirty years, and that in the case of a citizen of Saorstát Eireann not less than six years, or in the case of any other person not less than sixteen years of that period were subsequent to his attaining the age of fifty years.
	(2) For the purpose of the statutory condition imposed by virtue of the foregoing sub-section of this section a woman who has married an alien shall be deemed to be a citizen of Saorstát Eireann if she would have been a citizen of Saorstát Eireann if she had not so married.
	(3) In computing for the purpose of the statutory condition imposed by virtue of the first sub-section of this section the period of residence of any person in Saorstát Eireann, any temporary absence from Saorstát Eireann not exceeding six months in such period, any residence in the late United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in such period before the 6th day of December, 1922, and any absence from Saorstát Eireann in such period during which such person has maintained or assisted in maintaining any dependant in Saorstát Eireann, shall be reckoned in and form part of such period.
	Calculation of means of husband or wife.	3.—In lieu of the provisions (repealed by this Act) of sub-section (2) of section 2 of the Act of 1911 as amended by sub-section (2) of section 4 of the Act of 1919 it is hereby enacted that in calculating the means of a person who is one of a married couple living together in the same house the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—
	(a) the means of such person shall be taken to be one-half of the total means of such married couple;
	(b) such person shall be deemed to be entitled to one-half of all property to which he or the other member of such married couple is entitled or to which he and such other member are jointly entitled;
	(c) where one member of a married couple dies, nothing which was reckoned or would (if such deceased member had been entitled to receive an old age pension) have been reckoned as means of such deceased member for the purposes of the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1928, shall be reckoned as means of the surviving member of such married couple for the purpose of reducing the pension of such surviving member if any payment in respect of such pension was made before the death of such deceased member or becomes payable in respect of a period previous or partly previous to such death.
	Amendment of section 5 of the Act of 1911.	4.—Section 5 of the Act of 1911 is hereby amended by the substitution of the words “Saorstát Eireann” for the words “United Kingdom” in paragraph (a) of that section and the said section shall be construed and have effect accordingly.
	Application of Section 4 (1) (a)...