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S.I. No. 21/1948 - Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) Regulations, 1948.
Table of Provisions (7)
Statutory Text (7 Articles)
1. For male person with dependent wife, or female person with dependent husband
3
0
0
2
15
0
2. For single person or a person who is a widow or widower
1
8
0
1
5
0
3. For dependants (other than a wife or husband)
(a) aged 16 years and over
12
0
10
0
(b) aged 8 years and under 16
8
0
6
0
(c) aged under 8 years
5
0
3
0
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health, this twenty-third day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight.
(Signed) SÉAMUS Ó RIAIN,
Minister for Health
4. Where a person is owner or tenant of the premises in which he ordinarily resides, the approprite rate specified in the Schedule hereto may be increased by whichever of the following sums is the lesser :—
(
a
) the weekly amount of the outgoings payable by the person in respect of such premises or
(
b
) fifteen shillings per week where the premises are situate in a county borough and ten shillings, per week where the premises are situate elsewhere.
5. (1) Where a male person and his dependent wife or a female person and her dependent husband are both receiving free of charge institutional services in a health institution, the payment shall not exceed the sum of the following :—
(
a
) ten shillings per week, and
(
b
) where the person has one or more than one dependant (other than such husband or wife), a sum not exceeding £1 per week where the person is ordinarily resident in a county borough or fifteen shillings per week where the person is ordinarily resident elsewhere or the actual wage payable (whichever is the lesser) where, with the approval of the health authority, it is necessary to employ someone other than a relative to take care of such dependant or dependants, and
(
c
) a sum in respect of dependants calculated at the appropriate rate specified in the Schedule hereto, and
(
d
) a sum calculated in accordance with Article 4 of these regulations in respect of the ownership or occupation of premises.
(2) Where a person who is a widow, widower, or a single person is receiving free of charge institutional services in a health institution the payment shall not exceed the sum of the following:—
(
a
) five shillings per week, and
(
b
) where such person has one or more than one dependant a sum not exceeding £1 per week where the person is ordinarily resident in a county borough or fifteen shillings per week where the person is ordinarily resident elsewhere or the actual wage payable (whichever is the lesser) where, with the approval of the health authority, it is necessary to employ someone other than a relative to take care of such dependant or dependants, and
(
c
) a sum in respect of dependants' allowances calculated at the appropriate rate specified in the Schedule hereto, and
(
d
) a sum calculated in accordance with article 4 of these regulations in respect of the ownership or occupation of premises.
(3) Where a male person with dependent wife is receiving free of charge institutional services in a health institution, the payment shall not exceed the sum of the following :—
(
a
) thirty-seven shillings per week where such person is ordinarily resident in a county borough or thirty-five shillings per week where such person is ordinarily resident elsewhere, and
(
b
) a sum in respect of dependants' allowances calculated at the appropriate rate specified in the Schedule hereto, and
(
c
) a sum calculated in accordance with article 4 of these regulations in respect of the ownership or occupation of premises.
(4) Where a female person with dependent husband is receiving free of charge institutional services in a health institution, the payment shall not exceed the sum of the following :—
(
a
) thirty-seven shillings per week where such person is ordinarily resident in a county borough or thirty-five shillings per week where such person is ordinarily resident elsewhere, and
(
b
) where such person has one or more than one dependant (other than her husband) a sum not exceeding £1 per week where the person is ordinarily resident in a county borough or fifteen shillings per week where the person is ordinarily resident elsewhere, or the actual wage payable (whichever is the lesser) where, with the approval of the health authority, it is necessary to employ someone other than a relative to take care of such dependant or dependants, and
(
c
) a sum in respect of dependants' allowances calculated at the appropriate rate specified in the Schedule hereto, and
(
d
) a sum calculated in accordance with article 4 of these regulations in respect of the ownership or occupation of premises.
(5) Where the wife of a person is receiving free of charge institutional services in a health institution, the payment shall not exceed the sum of the following :—
(a) thirty-seven shillings per week where such person is ordinarily resident in a county borough or thirty-five shillings per week where such person is ordinarily resident elsewhere, and
(
b
) where such person has one or more than one dependant other than his wife a sum not exceeding £1 per week, where the person is ordinarily resident in a county borough or fifteen shillings per week where the person is ordinarily resident elsewhere or the actual wage payable (whichever is the lesser) where, with the approval of the health authority, it is necessary to employ someone other than a relative to take care of such dependant or dependants, and
(
c
) a sum in respect of dependants' allowances calculated at the appropriate rate specified in the Schedule hereto, and
(
d
) a sum calculated in accordance with article 4 of these regulations in respect of the ownership or occupation of premises.
6. These regulations shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1948.
SCHEDULE.
RATES OF PAYMENTS.
Rates of Payments
Class of Person
Where person ordinarily resident in county borough
Where person ordinarily resident else where than in county borough
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
S.I. No. 21 of 1948.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES (MAINTENANCE) REGULATIONS, 1948.
The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers vested in him by
section 44
of the
Health Act, 1947
, hereby makes the following regulations :—