Social Welfare (Social Welfare Tribunal) Regulations 1996
S.I. No. 262 of 1996
SOCIAL WELFARE (SOCIAL WELFARE TRIBUNAL) REGULATIONS 1996
REVISED
Updated to 4 May 2023
This Revised Statutory Instrument is an administrative consolidation of the Social Welfare (Social Welfare Tribunal) Regulations 1996. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
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S.I. No. 262 of 1996
SOCIAL WELFARE (SOCIAL WELFARE TRIBUNAL) REGULATIONS 1996
REVISED
Updated to 4 May 2023
About this Statutory Instrument
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Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006 (5/2006)
All Acts up to and including Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 (10/2023), enacted 2 May 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 447 of 2020)
• Social Protection (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 366 of 2017)
• Social and Family Affairs (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2010 (S.I. No. 186 of 2010)
• Social, Community and Family Affairs (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2002 (S.I. No. 310 of 2002)
• Social Welfare (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 1997 (S.I. No. 307 of 1997)
All statutory instruments up to and including Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Income Disregard) Regulations 2023 (S.I. No. 234 of 2023), made 4 May 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
S.I. No. 262 of 1996
SOCIAL WELFARE (SOCIAL WELFARE TRIBUNAL) REGULATIONS 1996
REVISED
Updated to 4 May 2023
The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 4 (as amended by section 37 of the Social Welfare Act, 1996 (No. 7 of 1996)) and 276 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993 (No. 27 of 1993), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Annotations:
Modifications (not altering text):
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Instrument continued in force (1.12.2005) by Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (26/2005), ss. 361(b) and 362(2), S.I. No. 923 of 2005.
Continuity of repealed enactments.
361.—The continuity of the operation of the law relating to the matters provided for in the repealed enactments shall not be affected by the substitution of this Act for those enactments, and—
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(b) so much of any enactment or document (including repealed enactments and enactments and documents passed or made after the commencement of this Act) as refers, whether expressly or by implication, to, or to things done or to be done under or for the purposes of, any provision of the repealed enactments shall, if and so far as the nature of the subject matter of the enactment or document permits, be read as including, in relation to the times, years or periods, circumstances or purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision of this Act has effect, a reference to, or, as the case may be, to things done or deemed to be done or to be done under or for the purposes of, that corresponding provision.
Continuance of officers, instruments and documents.
362.— …
(2) All instruments made and documents issued under the repealed enactments or any enactments repealed by the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 1993 and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act (other than the provisions of any instruments which are incorporated in this Act) shall continue in force as if made or issued under this Act.