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S.I. No. 95/1983 - Social Welfare (Maternity Allowance) (Additional Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations, 1983

Type Statutory Instrument
Publication 1983-03-28
Last updated 1992-04-06
State Partially repealed superseded text
Text As published
Source Irish Statute Book
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This is the act as published. Later amendments are not folded into the text below: each one is a separate act in this repository and an entry in this law's history.

1 amending act · 1992-04-06, S.I. No. 87/1992 - Social Welfare (Maternity Allowance) Regulations, 1992

Reform history JSON API

S.I. No. 95 of 1983.

SOCIAL WELFARE (MATERNITY ALLOWANCE) (ADDITIONAL BENEFIT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1983.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 3 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 (No. 1 of 1981) and by Section 75 of that Act (as substituted by the Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1981 (No. 3 of 1981)), hereby makes the following Regulations:—

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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Maternity Allowance) (Additional Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations, 1983.

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These Regulations shall come into effect on the 4th day of April, 1983.

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The following sub-article is hereby substituted for sub-article (3) of article 2 of the Social Welfare (Maternity Allowance) (Additional Benefit)) Regulations, 1981 ( S.I. No. 138 of 1981 )—

  • "(3) For the purpose of section 75 (1) (b) of the Act, £81.10 is hereby prescribed as the amount of the average reckonable weekly earnings of women in the income tax year commencing on the 6th day of April, 1981."

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this

28th day of March, 1983.

BARRY DESMOND,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Regulation provides for the use of a minimum weekly earnings figure for the 1981/1982 income tax year of £81.10 thus ensuring a minimum weekly aggregate benefit of £64.88 for women on maternity leave under the provisions of the Maternity Protection of Employees Act, 1981 in the year commencing 4 April 1983.

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