Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. 6) (Retained Fire Fighters) Regulations 2013.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. 6) (Retained Fire Fighters) Regulations 2013.
(2) These Regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) Regulations 2007 to 2013 shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) Regulations 2007 to 2013.
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paragraphs: In these Regulations “Principal Regulations” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 142 of 2007 ).
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paragraphs: Article 15 of the Principal Regulations is amended—
(a) in sub-article (2) by substituting “Subject to sub-article (4), a person shall not be regarded” for “A person shall not be regarded”,
(b) by inserting the following sub-article after sub-article (3):
“(4) For the purposes of sub-article (2)(e), employment as a retained fire fighter shall not be regarded as an unreasonable restriction where that person is available for—
(a) employment which is additional to his or her employment as a retained fire fighter and which would not necessitate cessation of the employment as a retained fire fighter, and/or
(b) alternative employment which would necessitate cessation of the employment as a retained fire fighter.”.
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paragraphs: Article 44(1) of the Principal Regulations is amended by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (b):
“(b) follows any occupation from which he or she derives any remuneration or profit, unless such occupation—
(i) could ordinarily have been followed by him or her in addition to his or her usual employment and outside the ordinary working hours of that employment and—
(I) the remuneration or profit from any day of such occupation does not exceed €12.70, or, where the remuneration or profit is in respect of a period longer than a day, such remuneration or profit does not on the daily average exceed that amount, or
(II) not less than 117 employment contributions have been paid in respect of him or her in respect of the period of 3 years immediately preceding that day or in respect of the last 3 complete contribution years immediately preceding that day,
or
(ii) constitutes employment as a retained fire fighter.”.
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paragraphs: Article 49 of the Principal Regulations is amended by substituting “7 consecutive days” for “6 consecutive days”.
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paragraphs: The Principal Regulations are amended by substituting the following article for article 117 (amended by article 4 of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. 4) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Transition) Regulations 2013 ( S.I. No. 244 of 2013 )):
“Days of unemployment.
117. (1) Other than in the case of a person to whom section 148A applies, for the purposes of Chapter 2 of Part 3, a day shall be treated as a day of unemployment if it is a day in respect of which a person—
(a) proves unemployment in accordance with article 118, and
(b) subject to sub-article (2), does not work for wages or other remuneration, whether paid in money or otherwise.
(2) Sub-article (1)(b) shall not apply to employment as a retained fire fighter.”.
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform consents to the foregoing Regulations.