S.I. No. 225/1956:

SOCIAL WELFARE (OVERLAPPIDG BENEFITS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1956.

SOCIAL WELFARE (OVERLAPPIDG BENEFITS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1956.

I, BRENDAN CORISH, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 and 32 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, 1956.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations, 1953 to 1955 shall be construed as one and may be cited collectively as the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations, 1953 to 1956.

(3) In these Regulations " the Principal Regulations " means the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations, 1953 ( S.I. No. 14 of 1953 ).

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 3rd day of September, 1956.

3. Sub-article (3) of article 4 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution for the word " seven " of the word " eight."

4. Sub-article (5) of article 4 of the Principal Regulations as amended by article 5 of the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1955 ( S.I. No. 145 of 1955 ) is hereby further amended by the substitution for " thirty-four shillings and sixpence ", " forty-one shillings and sixpence " and " forty-eight shillings and sixpence ", of " thirty-seven shillings and sixpence ", " forty-five shillings and sixpence " and " fifty-three shillings and sixpence " respectively.

5. Sub-article (4) of article 14 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution for the words " one hundred " of the words " one hundred and twenty-five ".

6. The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following article :--

" 18. Where under these Regulations any sum payable by way of any benefit would, apart from this article, include a fraction of a penny, that fraction shall be disregarded if it is less than a half-penny and shall be treated as a penny if it is a half-penny or more."

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 10th day of August One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-six.

BRENDAN CORISH,

Minister for Social Welfare

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Principal Regulations, i.e. the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations, 1953 (No. 14 of 1953) provide, inter alia, for the reduction of disability and unemployment benefit ; for the reduction or non-payment of increases of such benefits in respect of qualified children to widows in receipt of contributory or non-contributory pensions, and for a limit of £100 to the amount of accrued benefit, payable to a person on discharge from hospital or which may be deemed to form part of the estate of such a person if he dies before payment is made.

Consequent on the increase in the rates of benefit as provided for in the Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1956 (No. 24 of 1956) the reductions made under the Principal Regulations require adjustment. These Regulations effect the necessary adjustments and increase the limit to the amount of accrued benefit from £100 to £125.