S.I. No. 652/2018 - Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 6) (Assessment of Means) Regulations 2018

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 6) (Assessment of Means) Regulations 2018.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations 2007 to 2018 shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations 2007 to 2018.

Calculation of means

2. Article 36 (amended by article 2 of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 5) (Assessment of Means) Regulations 2018 (

S.I. No. 334 of 2018

)) of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 412 of 2007

) is amended—

(

a

) by the deletion of “or” after paragraph (

d

),

(

b

) by the substitution of “2008,” for “2008.” in paragraph (

e

),

(

c

) by the insertion of the following paragraphs after paragraph (

e

)

“(

f

) any payments made by Sport Ireland under the International Carding Scheme,

or

(

g

) any payments made by the Northern Ireland Victim and Survivor Service (VSS) in accordance with the Victims and Survivors (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.”.

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform consents to the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

19 December 2018.

PASCHAL DONOHOE,

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

21 December 2018.

REGINA DOHERTY,

Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These Regulations provide that any payments made by

(

a

) Sport Ireland under the International Carding Scheme, and

(

b

) the Northern Ireland Victim and Survivor Service (VSS) in accordance with the Victims and Survivors (Northern Ireland) Order 2006

will be disregarded in the assessment of means for the purposes of the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

18

th January

, 2019.

I, REGINA DOHERTY, Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 4 (amended by

section 96

of the

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011

(No. 10 of 2011)) of the

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

(No. 26 of 2005), and by Reference 19 (amended by

section 26

of the

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010

(No. 37 of 2010)) in Table 2 of Schedule 3, to the

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, hereby make the following Regulations

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