S.I. No. 63/2017 - Social Welfare (Consolidated Occupational Injuries) (Amendment) (No. 1) Regulations 2017.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Occupational Injuries) (Amendment) (No. 1) Regulations 2017.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Occupational Injuries) Regulations 2007 to 2015 shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Occupational Injuries) Regulations 2007 to 2017.

Commencement

2. 20

2

2,351

3. In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Occupational Injuries) Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 102 of 2007

).

Increased rates of benefits and pensions under the occupational injuries scheme

4. 50

3

3,134

6. 70

4

3,918

9. 00

5

4,701

11. 20

6

5,485

13. 40

7

6,268

15. 70

8

7,052

17. 90

9

7,835

20. 20

10

8,619

22. 40

11

9,402

24. 60

12

10,186

26. 90

13

10,969

29. 10

14

11,753

31. 40

15

12,536

33. 60

16

13,320

35. 80

17

14,103

38. 10

18

14,887

40. 30

19

15,670

42. 60

”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

2 March 2017.

LEO VARADKAR,

Minister for Social Protection.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

Section 21 of, and Schedule 1 to, the

Social Welfare Act 2016

provide for an increase in the maximum rate of Injury Benefit payable from 13 March 2017 and for increases in the rates of benefits payable under the Occupational Injuries Benefits Scheme from 17 March 2017. Parts 2-3 of Schedule 1 provide for increases to the maximum rate of Disablement Gratuity and the weekly rates of Disablement Pension where the degree of disablement ranges from 100 per cent to 20 per cent.

These Regulations provide for increases in the rate of Disablement Gratuity and the weekly rates of Disablement Pension where the degree of disablement ranges from 1 per cent to 19 per cent. The rates provided for in Schedule 3 apply in respect of a continuing disablement of between 1 and 19 per cent which arose prior to 1 January 2012. Schedule 3A applies where the disablement occurs after 1 January 2012 and in such a case, Disablement Gratuity and Disablement Pension are payable only where the extent of disablement is greater than 14 per cent.

The Regulations also provide for an increase in the rate of Injury Benefit payable to persons under the age of sixteen. If, in such a case, there is what amounts to full-time employment, or substantially full-time employment, the weekly rate will increase by €5.00 (from €188.00 to €193.00). This is the same rate as the maximum rate payable to an adult. In all other cases the rate will increase by €2.40 (from €89.90 to €92.30).

The rate increases provided for by these Regulations come into effect on 13 March 2017 in the case of Injury Benefit and on 17 March 2017 in the case of Disablement Gratuity and Disablement Pension to coincide with the increases in rates provided for by the

Social Welfare Act 2016

.

92. 30

”.

SCHEDULE B

“SCHEDULE 3

Articles 9 and 10

Scale of Disablement Gratuities and of Weekly Rates of Pension in Lieu of Disablement Gratuities

Degree of Disablement (1) Per Cent

Amount of Gratuity (2) €

Weekly Rate of Pension (3) €

1

1,567

193. 00

(b) in any other case................................

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

10

th March

, 2017.

I, LEO VARADKAR, Minister for Social Protection, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 4 (adapted by the Social and Family Affairs (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2010 (

S.I. No. 186 of 2010

)), 74 (amended by

section 7

of the

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013

(No. 38 of 2013)) and 75 (amended by

section 3

of the

Social Welfare Act 2011

(No. 37 of 2011)) of the

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

(No. 26 of 2005), hereby make the following Regulations

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