S.I. No. 230/2009 - Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. 4) (Island Allowance) Regulations 2009

1. (1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. 4) (Island Allowance) Regulations 2009.

(2) These regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 142 of 2007

) shall be construed together as one and may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) Regulations 2007 to 2009.

Island Allowance

2. The Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 142 of 2007

) are amended by the insertion in Schedule 16 after “Coney Island, Co. Sligo,” of “Dernish Island, Moneygold, Co.Sligo,”.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social and Family Affairs,

23 June 2009

MARY HANAFIN.

Minister for Social and Family Affairs.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These regulations provide for the addition of Dernish Island in Co. Sligo to the list of prescribed islands for the purposes of the Island Allowance payable to certain social welfare recipients who are normally resident on those islands.

S.I. No. 230 of 2009

SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATED CLAIMS, PAYMENTS AND CONTROL) (AMENDMENT) (No. 4) (ISLAND ALLOWANCE) REGULATIONS 2009

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

26

th June

, 2009.

The Minister for Social and Family Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 2(1) (as amended by sections 8 and 9(

a

) of the

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008

(No. 22 of 2008)) and 4 (as amended by section 17 and Schedule 3 of the

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006

(No. 5 of 2006)) of the

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

(No. 26 of 2005) hereby makes the following regulations

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