Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) Regulations 1998
S.I. No. 188 of 1998
SOCIAL WELFARE (RENT ALLOWANCE) REGULATIONS 1998
REVISED
Updated to 21 January 2026
This Revised Statutory Instrument is an administrative consolidation of the Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) Regulations 1998. 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. 188 of 1998
SOCIAL WELFARE (RENT ALLOWANCE) REGULATIONS 1998
REVISED
Updated to 21 January 2026
The Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 23 (as amended by section 26 of the Social Welfare Act, 1989 (No. 4 of 1989)) of the Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) Act, 1982 (No. 6 of 1982) and subsections (2) and (3) of section 4 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Continuity of repealed enactments.
361.—The continuity of the operation of the law relating to the matters provided for in the repealed enactments shall not be affected by the substitution of this Act for those enactments, and—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(b) so much of any enactment or document (including repealed enactments and enactments and documents passed or made after the commencement of this Act) as refers, whether expressly or by implication, to, or to things done or to be done under or for the purposes of, any provision of the repealed enactments shall, if and so far as the nature of the subject matter of the enactment or document permits, be read as including, in relation to the times, years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.
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(2) All instruments made and documents issued under the repealed enactments or any enactments repealed by the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 1993 and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act (other than the provisions of any instruments which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.