S.I. No. 261/1976 - Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) (No. 2) Regulations, 1976.

1. ( a ) For a person with a dependent spouse

19·10

( b ) For a person with a dependent spouse where such person or such spouse is receiving in-patient services

16·95

( c ) For a person with a dependent spouse where both such person and spouse are receiving in-patient services

14·10

2. ( a ) For a single person or a person who is a widow or widower with a dependant aged 16 years or over

14·45

( b ) For such person where such person is receiving in-patient services

12·10

3. ( a ) For a single person or a person who is a widow or widower without a dependant aged 16 years or over

10·45

( b ) For such person where such person is receiving in-patient services

08·20

SCHEDULE.

PART TWO

Circumstances in which the sum specified in Part One of this Schedule may be increased

Amount of Increase

( 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.

£5·70 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.

£5·70 or the actual wage payable to the helper employed whichever is the lesser

For each dependant (other than a spouse)

£2·90

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.

£3·15 or the weekly amount of the out-goings 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 16th

day of November, 1976.

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, 1976 (

S.I. No. 68 of 1976

)—to provide as from 1st October, 1976, for increases in the maximum rates of allowance payable.

The infectious diseases for which maintenance allowances are payable are acute anterior poliomyelitis,diphtheria, dysentery, lassa fever, paratyphoid A, paratyphoid B, rabies, salmonellainfection, scarlet fever,streptococcal sore throat,tuberculosis,andtyphus fever

4. (1) The payment shall, with effect from the 1st day of October, 1976, 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 said payment shall not exceed five pounds and seventy pence per week.

SCHEDULE.

PART ONE.

Class of person

Rates of Payment

£

S.I. No. 261 of 1976.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES (MAINTENANCE) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1976.

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:—