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5 1993

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1993

PART I

Preliminary

Short title, construction and collective citation.

1. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Social Welfare Act, 1993.

(2) This Act, other than Part VII , shall be construed together as one with the Social Welfare Acts and may be cited together with those Acts.

Interpretation.

2. —(1) In this Act—

“the Principal Act” means the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 ;

“the Act of 1984” means the Social Welfare Act, 1984 ;

“the Act of 1986” means the Social Welfare Act, 1986 ;

“the No. 2 Act of 1987” means the Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1987 ;

“the Act of 1988” means the Social Welfare Act, 1988 ;

“the Act of 1989” means the Social Welfare Act, 1989 ;

“the Act of 1990” means the Social Welfare Act, 1990 ;

“the Act of 1991” means the Social Welfare Act, 1991 ;

“the Act of 1992” means the Social Welfare Act, 1992 ;

“the Pensions Act” means the Pensions Act, 1990 .

(2) References in this Act or in any other enactment to the “Social Welfare Acts” means the Principal Act and every enactment which is to be construed with it as one.