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The Social Security (Amendment) Act, 2005.

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I Assent, James B. Carlisle, Governor-General.

1st June, 2005.

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA No.

5 of 2005 AN ACT to amend the Social Security Act, Cap.

408.

[ Published in the Official Gazette Vol.

XXV No.35 dated 2nd June, 2005. ]

ENACTED by the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda as follows — 1.

This Act may be cited as the Social Security (Amendment) Short title.

Act, 2005.

2.

The Social Security Act, Cap.


408 is amended in section 54 as follows — Amendment of section 54.

(a) in section (1), by the deletion of the words: “equivalent to the minimum rate paid as age benefit under the Act” and the substitution of the words: “at a rate to be determined by the Minister by regulation published in the Gazette”.
(b) by the repeal of subsection (2) and the substitution of the following — “(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), any person who, on the coming into force of this Act is in receipt of old age assistance because he — No.

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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA (a) is sixty years old or more; (b) (c) is blind or so disabled that he is unable to earn his livelihood; and has a total income of less than five thousand dollars per annum, shall continue to be paid old age assistance at a rate to be determined by the Minister by regulation published in the Gazette.” Passed by the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate this this 5th day of May, 2005.

17th day of May, 2005.


D. Giselle Isaac-Arindell, Speaker.

Yvonne Henry, Acting Clerk to the House of Representatives.

MacKenie Frank, Vice President.

Yvonne Henry, Acting Clerk to the Senate.

________ Printed at the Government Printing Office, Antigua and Barbuda, by Eric T. Bennett, Acting Government Printer — By Authority, 2005.

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