Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act, 1935.

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 665/1935
• Year: 1935

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1935. No. 665.

THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS ACT, 1935.

THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS (EXCEPTED PERSONS) REGULATIONS, 1935.

The Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2) of Section 5, subsection (2) of Section 13 and paragraph (i) of sub-section (1) of Section 65 of the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act, 1935 , does by this, his Order make the following Regulations :— 1. These Regulations may be cited for all purposes as the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions (Excepted Persons) Regulations, 1935. 2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 , shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas. 3. In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereinafter respectively assigned to them :

" the Act " means the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act, 1935 ;

" the Minister " means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health ;

" half-year " means any period (corresponding as nearly as may be to six months) in respect of which contributions cards are issued under the National Health Insurance (Collection of Contributions) Consolidated Regulations (Ireland), 1918 to 1929 ;

" second appointed day " means the day appointed by the Minister under Section 8 of the Act to be the second appointed day for purposes of the Act ;

" National Health Insurance Acts " means the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1934, as amended by the Act or any subsequent enactment. 4.—(a) For the purposes of sub-section (2) of Section 5 of the Act, the time within which notice and proof of incapacity for work by reason of some specific disease or of bodily or mental disablement must be given to the Minister by a person who has ceased to be employed in an excepted employment to which the Act applies shall be as follows :—

(i) in a case where the incapacity has terminated during the half year in which the excepted employment has ceased, a period of 6 weeks from the end of that half year ; and

(ii) in any other case a period of 6 weeks from the end of the incapacity or a period of 3 months from the date on which the person would, had it not been for such incapacity, have ceased to remain an insured person, whichever shall first expire :

Provided that where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister that failure to give...