S.I. No. 616/2001 - Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 1) (Euro) Regulations, 2001 (2001_si_616) | IE

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Reg. 1 S.I. No. 616/2001 - Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 1) (Euro) Regulations, 2001 Open official source

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) (Amendment) (No.1) (Euro) Regulations, 2001.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) Regulations, 1998 to 2001 shall be construed together as one and may be cited as the Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) Regulations, 1998 to 2001.

Commencement.

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Reg. 2 S.I. No. 616/2001 - Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 1) (Euro) Regulations, 2001 Open official source

2. These Regulations come into operation on 3 January 2002.

Amendments consequential on the introduction of the euro.

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Reg. 3 S.I. No. 616/2001 - Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 1) (Euro) Regulations, 2001 Open official source

3. The Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) Regulations, 1998 (

S.I. No. 188 of 1998

) are amended by the substitution in article 8(5) for “£13.20” of “EUR 16.80”.

GIVEN

under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs, this 10th day of December, 2001.

DERMOT AHERN

Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN

under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 17th day of December, 2001.

CHARLIE MC CREEVY

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

Regulations currently provide for the disregard of the qualified child rate of £13.20 in the assessment of means in relation to the Rent Allowance scheme for people affected by the decontrol of rents.

These Regulations provide for the conversion of this punt amount to a convenient Euro amount in line with the conversion to the new Euro currency from the beginning of January 2002.

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Preamble S.I. No. 616/2001 - Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 1) (Euro) Regulations, 2001 Open official source

The Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by

section 23

(as amended by

section 26

of the

Social Welfare Act, 1989

(No. 4 of 1989)) of the

Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) Act, 1982

(No. 6 of 1982) and subsections (2) and (3) of

section 4

of the

Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993

(No. 27 of 1993), hereby makes the following Regulations

Citation and construction.

S.I. No. 616/2001 - Social Welfare (Rent Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 1) (Euro) Regulations, 2001

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