Social Welfare (Disability Benefit, Marriage Benefit and Maternity Benefit) (Voluntary Contributors) (Transitional) Regulations, 1953.

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 1953
• Citation: IR SI 4/1953

S.I. No. 4 of 1953.

SOCIAL WELFARE (DISABILITY BENEFIT, MARRIAGE BENEFIT AND MATERNITY BENEFIT) (VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTORS) (TRANSITIONAL) REGULATIONS, 1953.

The Minister for Social Welfare in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952) and in particular by Sections 3 and 66 of the said Act and with the sanction of the Minister for Finance hereby makes the following regulations :— 1. These regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Disability Benefit, Marriage Benefit and Maternity Benefit) (Voluntary Contributors) (Transitional) Regulations, 1953. 2. These regulations shall come into operation on the 5th day of January, 1953. 3. In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires :—

" the Act" means the Social Welfare Act, 1952 ;

" the Minister" means the Minister for Social Welfare ;

" the National Health Insurance Acts" means the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1952 ;

" the appointed day" means the 5th day of January, 1953 ;

" existing voluntary contributor" means a person whose insurance as a voluntary contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts was effective immediately before the appointed day. 4. The Act shall, in relation to existing voluntary contributors, have effect subject to the modifications contained in these regulations. 5. Articles 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 17 of the Social Welfare (Disability Benefit, Marriage Benefit, Maternity Benefit and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Transitional) Regulations, 1953, ( S.I. No. 6 of 1953 ) shall apply to existing voluntary contributors in like manner as they apply to existing contributors as defined in the said Regulations. 6. An existing voluntary contributor as respects whom not less than thirteen contributions under the National Health Insurance Acts have been paid or excused for the period from the 7th day of July, 1952, to the 4th day of January, 1953, shall be credited with an employment contribution under the Act for every contribution week in the period from the 5th day of January, 1953, to the 5th day of July, 1953. 7. In determining whether the contribution conditions for disability benefit contained in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 1 of the Fourth Schedule to the Act, in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 2 of the said Schedule for marriage benefit, and in sub-paragraphs (a) (ii) and (b) (ii) of paragraph 3 of the said Schedule for maternity benefit have been satisfied in respect of an...