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Timestamp: 2020-01-22 16:36:22
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 3', 'art 4', 'art 4', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 2', 'art 3', 'art 1', 'art 3', 'art 1', 'art 6']

( a) in Part 3 by inserting the following after Chapter 5:
‘ institution ’ has the same meaning as in section 59 of the Health Act 1970;
( b) the weekly means of the person as calculated in accordance with Part 4 of Schedule 3 do not exceed the appropriate highest amount of weekly means at which blind welfare allowance may be paid to that person in accordance with section 161H,
( d) the person is habitually resident in the State at the date of the making of the application for blind welfare allowance.
( a) at the scheduled rate, where the weekly means of the person do not exceed the allowable amount, being the sum of—
( b) at the scheduled rate reduced by 10 cent for each amount, if any, of 10 cent by which the weekly means of the person exceed the allowable amount referred to in paragraph ( a).
( a) subject to paragraph ( b), where the claimant and the claimant’s spouse are members of the same household, their means shall be aggregated and shall be regarded as the means of the claimant,
( b) where the claimant and the claimant’s spouse are both in receipt of blind pension under Chapter 5 of this Part or both satisfy the requirements of section 161G(1)( c), the means of the claimant shall be taken to be one-half of the aggregated means of both of them.
( a) husband and wife, or
( b) a man and woman who are not married to each other but are cohabiting as husband and wife.
( a) to attend for, or submit to, any medical or other examination or treatment, and
( b) to be available to meet with an officer of the Minister regarding the person’s claim for blind welfare allowance.”,
( b) by substituting the following for Part 4 of Schedule 3:
( a) for the purposes of blind welfare allowance, in accordance with reference 2 of Table 1 to this Schedule, or
( b) for the purposes of supplementary welfare allowance, in accordance with reference 3 of that Table,
( a) the amounts at references 2 to 11, 18A and 19 in Table 2 to this Schedule,
( b) in such cases as are prescribed, any moneys received by way of a maintenance grant,
( c) any income arising from a blind welfare allowance under section 161G of this Act,
( d) any sums arising from the investment or profitable use of property (not being property personally used or enjoyed by the person or a farm of land leased by the person),
( e) such amount as is prescribed of earnings from employment of a rehabilitative nature,
( f) any moneys received by way of guardian’s payment (contributory), guardian’s payment (non-contributory) or respite care grant, and
( g) in the case of a person in receipt of a supplement under section 198 towards the amount of mortgage interest or rent payable by the person in respect of his or her residence—
(I) any allowable contribution referred to in Regulations 41 and 42 of the Income Tax (Employments) (Consolidated) Regulations 2001 ( S.I. No. 559 of 2001),
(III) any amount deducted from reckonable earnings under section 5 of the Health Contributions Act 1979,
(ii) the amount by which carer’s allowance as set out in column (2) at reference 8( a) or 8( b), as appropriate, of Part 1 of Schedule 4 exceeds—
(iii) the amount by which carer’s benefit as set out in column (2) at reference 7( a) or 7( b), as appropriate, of Part 1 of Schedule 2 exceeds—
(II) the amount by which carer’s benefit as set out in column (2) at reference 7( a) or 7( b), as appropriate, of Part 1 of Schedule 2 exceeds the amount of supplementary welfare allowance set out in column (2) at reference 10 of Part 1 of Schedule 4, where the person, not being one of a couple, is in receipt of carer’s benefit under Part 2,
( h) in the case of blind welfare allowance—
(i) where the person, or the person’s spouse, is in receipt of carer’s allowance under Chapter 8 of Part 3, the amount by which carer’s allowance as set out in column (2) at reference 8( a) or 8( b), as appropriate, of Part 1 of Schedule 4 exceeds—
(ii) where the person, not being one of a couple, is in receipt of carer’s allowance under Chapter 8 of Part 3, the amount by which carer’s allowance as set out in column (2) at reference 8( a) or 8( b), as appropriate, of Part 1 of Schedule 4 exceeds—
( a) the use or enjoyment of property (other than a domestic dwelling or a farm building owned and occupied, or furniture and personal effects) which is personally used or enjoyed by the person, and
( b) the leasing by the person of a farm of land;
( a) the weekly value, calculated in such manner as is prescribed, of any benefit or privilege enjoyed by the person by reason of—
( b) the weekly value of any benefit or privilege, other than benefit or privilege referred to in paragraph ( a), enjoyed by the person.
2. In Rule 1(2)( g)(i), ‘additional income’ means the amount by which the aggregate of—
( a) income arising from such employment or training as is prescribed,
( b) income arising from the receipt by the person of family income supplement under Part 6, and
( c) the aggregate of—
5. In the case of supplementary welfare allowance, where a person or the person’s spouse has any additional income to which Rule 1(2)( e) or Rule 1(2)( g)(i) may apply, only one such Rule shall apply, being whichever is the more favourable.
6. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), Rules 1(1), 1(2)( f) and 1(2)( g) shall not have the effect of reducing the rate of supplementary welfare allowance below the rate payable immediately before 6 June 2007.
( c) in Table 1 of Schedule 3—
Repealed (17.12.2008) by Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 (22/2008), s. 23(2), commenced on enactment.
Repealed by Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014 (16/2014), s. 12(1)(a) and (2), not commenced as of date of revision.
Prospective affecting provision: subs. (a) amended by Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014 (16/2014), s. 12(1)(a), not commenced as of date of revision.
( d) the person is habitually resident in the State F3 [ … ].