LegalizeHealth Contributions (Amendment) Act , 1976
1 Amendment of section 3 of Health Contributions Act, 1971.
1.—Section 3 of the Health Contributions Act, 1971, is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsections (1) and (1A) (inserted by section 1 of the Health Contributions (Amendment) Act, 1974):
“(1) In the period beginning on the 1st day of April, 1976, and ending on the date specified by order for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section, health contributions shall be—
(a) in the case of a person insured under the Act of 1952 to whom section 4 or 5 of this Act applies, at the weekly rate of thirty-three new pence, and
(b) in the case of any other person, at the annual rate of £15, and shall be collected at such intervals as may be prescribed.”
2 Short title, collective citation and commencement.
2.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Health Contributions (Amendment) Act, 1976.
(2) The Health Contributions Acts, 1971 and 1974, and this Act may be cited together as the Health Contributions Acts, 1971 to 1976.
(3) This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1976.
This document does not substitute the official text published in the Irish Statute Book. We accept no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the transcription of the original into this format.
This text is published under Irish Statute Book's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence.
Irish Statute Book
CC-BY 4.0 (Oireachtas Open Data PSI Licence)
Contains Irish Public Sector Information licensed under the Oireachtas (Houses of the Oireachtas) Open Data PSI Licence / Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, sourced from https://www.irishstatutebook.ie.