Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations, 1966

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 1966
• Citation: IR SI 247/1966

S.I. No. 247 of 1966.

SOCIAL WELFARE (OVERLAPPING BENEFITS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1966.

I, CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 , 32 and 75 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), hereby make the following Regulations :— 1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations, 1966.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations, 1953 to 1965, may be cited collectively as the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations, 1953 to 1966. 2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1966. 3. In these Regulations " the Principal Regulations " means the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations, 1953 ( S.I. No. 14 of 1953 ). 4. Article 4 (1) of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution for " 5 and 6 " of " 5, 6 and 8 ". 5. Article 4 (5) of the Principal Regulations, as amended by the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1965 ( S.I. No. 178 of 1965 ) is hereby further amended by the substitution for the words " seventy-two shillings and three-pence ", " eighty-five shillings and threepence " and " ninety-eight shillings and threepence " of the words " seventy-seven shillings and threepence ", " ninety shillings and threepence " and " one hundred and three shillings and threepence ", respectively. 6. Article 4 of the Principal Regulations is amended by the addition of the following sub-article :—

" (8) Where in accordance with Regulations made under section 28A (inserted by the Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1960 (No. 25 of 1960) ) of the Act as amended by section 6 (1) of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1966 (No. 24 of 1966) a widow is in receipt of a widow's (contributory) pension at a rate less than that specified in the Third Schedule to the Act in respect of any week the rate of disability benefit or unemployment benefit otherwise payable to her in respect of any day in that week shall be at such a rate (not being less than that specified in sub-article (1) of this article) as the Minister may in any particular case consider appropriate and the provisions of sub-article (1) of this article shall not apply in such a case.

Provided that in any such case :

(i) where the widow is entitled to an increase or increases for a qualified child or qualified...