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SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2011

REVISED

Updated to 22 December 2020

Introduction

This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.

Related legislation

Social Welfare Acts: references in any other enactment to the "Social Welfare Acts" means the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (26/2005) and every other enactment which is to be read together with it as one (Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (26/2005), s. 3(8)). The Acts in this group are:

• Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (26/2005), other than s. 13

• Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006 (5/2006), ss. 1 to 37

• Social Welfare Act 2006 (36/2006), other than s. 13

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007 (8/2007), ss. 1 to 36

• Social Welfare Act 2007 (40/2007), other than s. 8

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2008 (2/2008), ss. 2 to 25

• Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 (22/2008), Parts 1 and 2

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2009 (10/2009), ss. 2 to 11

• Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2009 (43/2009), other than Part 3

• Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010 (28/2010), Parts 1 and 2

• Social Welfare Act 2010 (34/2010), other than s. 15(1)-(3)

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010 (37/2010), Parts 1, 2 and 4, s. 29 and Schedules 1, 2 and 3

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 (9/2011), Part 2

• Social Welfare Act 2011 (37/2011), Parts 1 and 2

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2012 (12/2012), Parts 1 and 2

• Social Welfare Act 2012 (43/2012), other than Part 3

• Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (20/2013), Parts 1 and 2

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013 (38/2013), Parts 1 and 2

• Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2013 (49/2013), Parts 1 and 2

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014 (16/2014), Part 2

• Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2014 (41/2014), other than s. 4

• Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (12/2015), Part 2

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2015 (47/2015), Part 2

• Social Welfare Act 2016 (15/2016)

• Social Welfare Act 2017 (38/2017), Part 2

• Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018 (37/2018), Part 2

• Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2019 (8/2019), Part 11 (Repealed)

• Social Welfare Act 2019 (34/2019), other than Part 3

• Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020 (1/2020), Part 2

• Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 (2/2020), s. 28(5)(g), (h)

• Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Act 2020 (12/2020)

• Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2020 (23/2020), Part 14

• Social Welfare Act 2020 (30/2020)

Annotations

This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.

An explanation of how to read annotations is available at

www.lawreform.ie/annotations.

Material not updated in this revision

Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.

Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.

A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at

www.irishstatutebook.ie.

Acts which affect or previously affected this revision

• Social Welfare Act 2020 (30/2020)

All Acts up to and including Social Welfare Act 2020 (30/2020), enacted 22 December 2020, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 (Section 16(6)) (Commencement) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 704 of 2011)

• Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 (Section 10) (Commencement) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 494 of 2011)

All statutory instruments up to and including Appointment of Special Advisers (Leader, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 754 of 2020), made 22 December 2020, were considered in the preparation of this revision.