Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2003
Number 4 of 2003
SOCIAL WELFARE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2003
REVISED
Updated to 1 July 2024
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2003. 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.
All Acts up to and including the Employment Permits Act 2024 (17/2024), enacted 25 June 2024, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Protection of Employment Act 1977 (Notification of Proposed Collective Redundancies) Regulations 2024 (S.I. No. 324 of 2024), made 1 July 2024, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 4 of 2003
SOCIAL WELFARE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2003
REVISED
Updated to 1 July 2024
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Short Title, Construction, Collective Citation and Commencement
Section
1.
Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.
Amendments to the Social Welfare Acts
2.
3.
Child benefit (new rates). (Repealed)
4.
Respite care grant — increase. (Repealed)
5.
Qualified child — extension of entitlement. (Repealed)
6.
Island allowance — improvements. (Repealed)
7.
Payments after death — improvements. (Repealed)
8.
Assessment of means — amendments.
9.
Orphan's payments — amendment. (Repealed)
10.
Personal public service number — extension of provisions. (Repealed)
11.
Award of child benefit in certain cases. (Repealed)
12.
Amendments consequential on alignment of income tax year with calendar year.
13.
Supplementary welfare allowance — amendment to conditions of entitlement. (Repealed)
14.
Conditions for grant of supplementary welfare allowance — amendment. (Repealed)
15.
Grant of supplementary welfare allowance in cases of urgency — amendment. (Repealed)
16.
Amendments to section 2 of Principal Act. (Repealed)
17.
Employment contributions — amendment. (Repealed)
18.
Employment contributions — amendment to payment of contribution and keeping of records. (Repealed)
19.
Employed contributors and insured persons — agency workers. (Repealed)
Miscellaneous Amendments
20.
Amendments to Health Contributions Act 1979.
21.
Amendments to National Training Fund Act 2000.
22.
Amendment of Ombudsman Act 1980.
23.
Amendments to Freedom of Information Act 1997.
24.
Amendments to Pensions Act 1990.
Amendments to Pensions Act 1990
Acts Referred to
Aliens Act 1935
Education Act 1998
Employment Agency Act 1971
Employment Equality Act 1998
Freedom of Information Act 1997
Health Contributions Act 1979
Higher Education Authority Act 1971
Insurance Act 1989
Maternity Protection Act 1994
National Training Fund Act 2000
Ombudsman Act 1980
Ombudsman for Children Act 2002
Payment of Wages Act 1991
Pensions Act 1990
Pensions (Amendment) Act 2002
Pensions Acts 1990 to 2002
Refugee Act 1996
Social Welfare Act 1993
Social Welfare Act 1996
Social Welfare Act 1997
Social Welfare Act 1999
Social Welfare Act 2000
Social Welfare Act 2001
Social Welfare Act 2002
Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 1993
Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002
Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 1993
Taxes Consolidation Act 1997
Number 4 of 2003
SOCIAL WELFARE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2003
REVISED
Updated to 1 July 2024
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS, THE HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS ACT 1979, THE NATIONAL TRAINING FUND ACT 2000, THE OMBUDSMAN ACT 1980, THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1997 AND THE PENSIONS ACT 1990. [28th March, 2003]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: