S.I. No. 218/1972 - Social Welfare (Death Grant) (Amendment) Regulations, 1972.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Death Grant) (Amendment) Regulations, 1972.

(2) In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the Social Welfare (Death Grant) Regulations, 1971 (

S.I. No. 98 of 1971

).

(3) These Regulations and the Principal Regulations may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Death Grant) Regulations 1971 and 1972.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 2nd day of October 1972.

3. The following Schedule shall be substituted for the Schedule to the Principal Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Number, or Average Number per year, of contributions paid or credited

Qualified Child under the age of five years

Qualified Child aged five year or over

A person other than those mentioned in columns (2) and (3)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

26 to 47

£6

£17

£28

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this 6th day of September 1972.

JOSEPH BRENNAN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

The Minister for Finance hereby sanctions these Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 6th day of September 1972.

SEOIRSE Ó COLLA,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The

Social Welfare Act, 1972

, provides for increased maximum rates of death grant with effect from 2nd October, 1972. These Regulations amend the Social Welfare (Death Grant) Regulations, 1971, to enable increased reduced rates of death grant to be paid where the contribution conditions are only partially satisfied.

S.I. No. 218 of 1972.

SOCIAL WELFARE (DEATH GRANT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1972.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by

Section 3

of the

Social Welfare Act, 1952

(No. 11 of 1952) and Section 28B of the said Act (inserted therein by

section 10

of the

Social Welfare Act, 1970

(No. 12 of 1970)), hereby makes the following Regulations : —