S.I. No. 178/1965:

SOCIAL WELFARE (OVERLAPPING BENEFITS) (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1965

SOCIAL WELFARE (OVERLAPPING BENEFITS) (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1965

I, CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN, 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) (No. 2) Regulations, 1965.

(2) These Regulations shall be included in the expression "the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations, 1953 to 1965".

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1965.

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

4. Sub-article (5) of article 4 of the Principal Regulations, as amended by the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations 1964 ( S.I. No. 183 of 1964 ) is hereby further amended by the substitution for the words "fifty-seven shillings and threepence," "seventy shillings and threepence" and "eighty-three shillings and threepence" of the words "sixty-seven shillings and threepence," "eighty shillings and threepence" and "ninety-three shillings and threepence," respectively.

5. Sub-article (5) of article 4 of the Principal Regulations is hereby further amended by the substitution with effect from the 3rd day of January, 1966, for the words "sixty-seven shillings and threepence," "eighty shillings and threepence" and "ninety-three shillings and threepence" (inserted by article 4 of these Regulations) of the words "seventy-two shillings and threepence," "eighty-five shillings and threepence" and "ninety-eight shillings and threepence," respectively.

6. Sub-article (4) of article 14 of the Principal Regulations, as amended by article 7 of the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations, 1963 ( S.I. No. 217 of 1963 ) is hereby further amended by the substitution, with effect from the 3rd day of January 1966, for the words "one hundred and seventy-five" of the words "two hundred and twenty."

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 30th day of July, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-five.

CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1965 , makes provision, inter alia, for increases in the rates of widow's (non-contributory) pension with effect as from the 1st August, 1965, and in the rates of unemployment and disability benefit with effect as from the 3rd of January, 1966. These Regulations provide for consequential increases in the limits prescribed in the Social Welfare (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations, 1953 ( S.I. No. 14 of 1953 ), as amended, to the combined rate payable by way of pension and disability benefit or unemployment benefit to a widow who is in receipt of a widow's (non-contributory) pension which is reduced in respect of means. These Regulations also provide that the limit of accrued disability benefit payable to a person on his discharge from hospital or to his estate on death is increased from £175 to £220.