Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No.1) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations, 2001

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 103/2001

The Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 3 (as amended by section 19 of the Social Welfare Act, 1999 (No. 3 of 1999)), 4 (as amended by section 17 of the Social Welfare Act, 2000 (No. 4 of 2000)), 158(4) (as amended by section 11 of the Social Welfare Act, 1999 ) and 210 (as amended by section 11 of the Social Welfare Act, 2000 ) of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993 (No. 27 of 1993) and Rule 1(8) (as amended by section 11 of the Social Welfare Act, 2000 ) and Rule 4(1B) (as amended by section 12 of the Social Welfare Act, 1999 ) of Part II of the Third Schedule to the said Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
	Citation and construction.	1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No.1) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations, 2001.
(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations 1994 to 2001 shall be construed together as one and may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations, 1994 to 2001.
	Commencement.	2. These Regulations come into operation -
(a) in so far as they relate to unemployment assistance, pre-retirement allowance and farm assist, on 28 March 2001,
(b) in so far as they relate to unemployment benefit, on 29 March 2001,
(c) in so far as they relate to disability benefit or injury benefit, on 2 April 2001,
(d) in so far as they relate to disability allowance, on 4 April 2001,
(e) in so far as they relate to carer's benefit, retirement pension, invalidity pension one-parent family payment (other than where payable in respect of a widow or widower) and carer's allowance on 5 April 2001, and
(f) in so far as they relate to old age (contributory) pension, one-parent family payment payable in respect of a widow or widower and unemployability supplement on 6 April 2001.
	Definitions.	3. In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations, 1994 ( S.I. No. 417 of 1994 ).
	Qualified adult-amendment of income test.	4. Article 6B of the Principal Regulations (inserted by article 3 of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1996 ( S.I. No. 95 of 1996 )) is amended by the substitution for sub-article (2) of the following sub-article:
“(2) In calculating or estimating the weekly income under sub-article (1), any sums received by way of disablement benefit under section 54, death benefit under section 62, child benefit, orphan's (contributory) allowance, orphan's (non-contributory) pension under the Principal Act, sums received by way of assistance in the maintenance at home of...