S.I. No. 220/1975 - Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) (Amendment) Regulations, 1975.

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

£495 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 in-patient services and, with the approval of the health board, a helper is employed to take care of such dependant or dependants.

£495 or the actual wage payable to the helper employed whichever is the lesser.

2. For each dependant ( other than a spouse)

£250.

3. For a person who is owner or tenant of the premises in 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.

£275 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 29th day of September, 1975.

BRENDAN CORISH,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The effect of these Regulations is to amend the existing Regulations governing the payment of maintenance allowances to persons being treated for certain infectious diseases—the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) Regulations, 1975 (

S.I. No. 40 of 1975

)—to provide as from 1st October, 1975, for increases in the maximum rates of allowance payable.

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

S.I. No. 220 of 1975.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES (MAINTENANCE) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1975.

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