S.I. No. 581/2008 - Infectious Diseases (Maintenance Allowance) Regulations, 2009

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance Allowance) Regulations, 2009.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of January 2009.

3. The Infectious Diseases (Maintenance Allowances) Regulations, 2008 (

S.I. No. 836 of 2007

) are hereby revoked.

4. In these Regulations—

“Person” means a person to whom

Section 44

of the

Health Act 1947

applies by virtue of sub-section (1) of that Section.

5. The payment to be made under sub-section (3) of

Section 44

of the

Health Act 1947

to or in respect of a person or his/her dependants 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.

SCHEDULE

PART ONE

CLASS OF PERSON

RATES OF PAYMENT

Euros (€)

Personal rate (single person, widow or widower)- with qualified adult (dependant spouse)

204.30339.90

PART TWO

CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH THE SUM SPECIFIED IN PART ONE OF THIS SCHEDULE MAY BE INCREASED

AMOUNT OF INCREASE

Euros (€)

For each child dependant

26.00

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health and Children,

19 December 2008

MARY HARNEY, T.D.

Minister for Health and Children.

The Minister for Finance consents to these Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance,

18 December 2008

BRIAN LENIHAN, T.D.

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

The effect of these Regulations is to provide as from 1st January 2009, for increases in the maximum rates of maintenance allowances payable to persons being treated for certain infectious diseases.

The infectious diseases for which maintenance allowances are payable are acute anterior poliomyelitis, diphtheria, dysentery, salmonellosis, tuberculosis, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, typhus and viral haemorrhagic diseases (including Lassa fever and Marburg disease).

S.I. No. 581 of 2008

INFECTIOUS DISEASES (MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE) REGULATIONS, 2009

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

6

th January

, 2009.

The Minister for Health and Children, in exercise of the powers vested in her by Section 5 and Section 44 (5) of the

Health Act 1947

, (No. 28 of 1947), as adapted by the Health (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order (S.I. 308 of 1997), hereby makes the following regulations—