Number 25/1978: SOCIAL WELFARE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1978

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Number 25 of 1978

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SOCIAL WELFARE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1978

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I

Preliminary and General

Section
1.	Short title, construction and collective citation.
2.	Interpretation.
3.	Commencement.

PART II

Social Welfare Acts, 1952 to 1978

4.	Amendment of section 2 (1) of Act of 1952.
5.	Amendment of section 6 of Act of 1952.
6.	Regulations relating to contributions and consequential repeals.
7.	Regulations regarding liability for contributions.
8.	Amendment of section 37 of Act of 1952.
9.	Amendment of section 39 of Act of 1952.
10.	Supplying by Revenue Commissioners of certain information to Minister.
11.	Regulations for calculation of reckonable earnings, employment contributions and voluntary contributions.
12.	Regulations requiring employers to keep records.
13.	Construction of certain references to certain contributions in the Acts.
14.	Repeal of Second Schedule and consequential amendments of Fourth Schedule to Act of 1952.

PART III

Repeal or Amendment of Other Enactments

15.	Repeal of certain provisions of Insurance (Intermittent Unemployment) Act, 1942.
16.	Amendment of section 36 of Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Act, 1966.
17.	Construction of references to employment contributions in Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1968.
18.	Amendment or repeal of certain provisions of Social Welfare (Pay-Related Benefit) Act, 1973.

PART IV

Miscellaneous Provisions

19.	Sanction of Minister for Finance required to certain regulations.
20.	Regulations securing continuity of Act with provisions repealed, amended, etc..
21.	Removal of difficulties.

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Number 25 of 1978

SOCIAL WELFARE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1978

AN ACT TO PROVIDE, BY AMENDMENT OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS, 1952 TO 1978, FOR A SYSTEM OF FULLY PAY-RELATED SOCIAL INSURANCE (INCLUDING OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES) CONTRIBUTIONS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE AMENDMENT OF CERTAIN OTHER ENACTMENTS AND FOR OTHER CONNECTED MATTERS. [6th December, 1978]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: