S.I. No. 169/1972 - Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) Regulations, 1972.

1. (a) For a single person or a person who is a widow or widower or female person with a dependent husband where such person has one or more dependants (other than such husband) and where, with the approval of the health board, a helper is employed to take care of such dependant or dependants.

£2·75 or the actual wage payable to the helper employed whichever is the lesser.

(b) For a male person with a dependent wife where such person has one or more dependants (other than such wife) and his wife is receiving inpatient services and, with the approval of the health board, a helper is employed to take care of such dependants.

£2·75 or the actual wage payable to the helper employed whichever is the lesser.

2. For each dependant (other than a spouse)

£1·15

3. For a person who is owner or tenant of the premises n which he ordinarily resides or who not being the owner or tenant pays or contributes substantially towards the payment of the outgoings of the premises in which he ordinarily resides.

£1·50 or the weekly amount of the outgoings or the amount of the weekly contribution towards the outgoings whichever is the lesser

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 10th day of July, 1972.

ERSKINE H. CHILDERS,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of these Regulations is to revoke the existing Regulations governing the payment of maintenance allowances to persons being treated for certain infectious diseases—the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) Regulations, 1971 (

S.I. No. 208 of 1971

)—and to re-make them with amendments providing, from 1st August, 1972, for increases in the maximum allowances payable. The Regulations also provide for the payment of a domestic help allowance where either a male or female person is employed to take care of a family.

The infectious diseases for which maintenance allowances are payable are tuberculosis, acute anterior poliomyelitis, typhoid, diphtheria, paratyphoid A, paratyphoid B, typhus fever, dysentry, salmonella infection, scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat.

4. In these Regulations—

" the Act " means the

Health Act, 1947

(No. 28 of 1947) ;

" outgoings " means the rent, ground rent, rates and purchase annuity payable in respect of premises and mortgage repayments relating to the purchase of premises ;

" receiving in-patient services " means receiving in-patient services made available under the

Health Act, 1970

(

S.I. No. 1 of 1970

) ;

" person " means a person to whom section 44 of the act applies by virtue of subsection (1) of that section, and

" the payment " means the payment to be made under subsection (3) of section 44 of the act to or in respect of a person or his dependants.

5. (1) The payment shall be a weekly payment not exceeding

(

a

) the sum specified in Part One of the Schedule hereto which is appropriate to the person, and

(

b

) such of the increases specified in Part Two of the said Schedule as are appropriate.

(2) Where a married woman whose husband is unable to make proper provision for the care of their family is undergoing treatment for an infectious disease to the satisfaction of a medical officer of the health board in whose functional area she resides and a helper is employed with the approval of the health board to take care of such family, the payment shall not exceed two pounds and seventy-five new pence per week.

SCHEDULE.

PART ONE.

Class of Person

Rates of Payment

A person with no means

Any other person

S.I. No. 169 of 1972.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES (MAINTENANCE) REGULATIONS, 1972.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers vested in him by section 5 and subsection (5) of

section 44

of the

Health Act, 1947

(No. 28 of 1947), hereby makes the following Regulations :—