Source: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2005/act/26/section/113/enacted/en/html
Timestamp: 2020-07-04 12:55:06
Document Index: 118455901

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 1', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 1']

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, Section 113
Pre-1953 pension.
[2000 s16]
113.—(1) Notwithstanding this Chapter and regulations made under this Chapter and subject to subsection (2), a pension shall be payable in accordance with this section in the case of a person who—
(a) has attained pensionable age,
(b) was an employed contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts 1911 to 1952, and
(c) has paid—
(i) contributions as an employed contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts 1911 to 1952, or
(ii) a combination of those contributions and qualifying contributions,
in respect of not less than 260 contribution weeks since the person first became insured under the National Health Insurance Acts 1911 to 1952.
(3) In taking into account under this section contributions paid by or in respect of an employed contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts 1911 to 1952, every 2 such contributions under those Acts shall be reckoned as 3 contributions paid in respect of 3 contribution weeks, with any odd contribution being reckoned as 2 contributions paid in respect of 2 contribution weeks.
(4) A pension payable in accordance with this section shall be payable at half the rate specified in column (2) at reference 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 .
[2000 s16; 2001 s15(1)(e)(ii)]
(5) The weekly rate of old age (contributory) pension payable in accordance with this section shall be increased by—
(a) half the amount set out in column (3) at reference 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 for any period during which the beneficiary has a qualified adult, subject to the restriction that a beneficiary shall not be entitled for the same period to an increase of pension under this subsection in respect of more than one person,
(b) half the amount set out in column (4) at reference 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 in respect of each qualified child who normally resides with the beneficiary,
(c) the amount set out in column (6) at reference 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 where the beneficiary is living alone,
(d) the amount set out in column (7) at reference 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 where the beneficiary has attained the age of 80 years, and
(e) the amount set out in column (8) at reference 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 where the beneficiary is ordinarily resident on an island.