S.I. No. 108/2019 - Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Diet Supplement) Regulations 2019

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Diet Supplement) Regulations 2019.

(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations 2007 to 2019 shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) Regulations 2007 to 2019.

Rate of diet supplement

2. Article 17 (amended by article 2 of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Diet Supplement) Regulations 2018 (

S.I. No. 104 of 2018

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

S.I. No. 412 of 2007

) is amended by the substitution of the following sub-article for sub-article (4A)

“(4A) Notwithstanding sub-article (4), in the case of a claimant who is in receipt of a supplement under Part 4 of these Regulations, any increase in the weekly rate of benefit or assistance payable to that claimant, as provided for—

(

a

) by the

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018

(No. 37 of 2018), or

(

b

) by virtue of Regulations made, on or after 14 March 2019 but before 21 March 2019, under the Principal Act, insofar as such Regulations relate to an increase in the weekly rate of benefit or assistance,

shall not have the effect of reducing the rate of supplement below that which was payable before the said increase occurs.”.

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

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

8 March 2019.

PASCHAL DONOHOE,

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

13 March 2019.

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 the 2019 budgetary increases in Social Welfare payments shall not have the effect of reducing the rate of diet supplement below that which was payable before the said increase occurred.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

26

th March,

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 section 198 (amended by

section 11

of the

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013

(No. 38 of 2013)) of 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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