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Number 8 of 2007
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SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2007
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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PART 1
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Preliminary and General
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Section
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1. Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.
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2. Definitions.
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PART 2
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Amendments to Social Welfare Acts
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3. Amendment to definition of volunteer development worker.
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4. Child benefit — new rates.
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5. Illness benefit — improvements.
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6. Maternity benefit — improvements.
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7. Adoptive benefit — improvements.
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8. Jobseeker’s benefit — improvement.
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9. Jobseeker’s allowance, pre-retirement allowance, disability allowance and farm assist — amendments to means provisions.
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10. Cost of medical care — amendments.
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11. Disqualifications from injury benefit or disablement benefit — amendment.
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12. Carer’s benefit — entitlement to benefit.
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13. State pension (contributory) — amendment.
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14. Qualified adult increase — direct payment.
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15. Entitlement for invalidity pension recipients — amendment.
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16. Invalidity pension — amendment to entitlement to pension.
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17. Guardian’s payment (contributory) and guardian’s payment (non-contributory) — amendments.
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18. Bereavement grant — improvements.
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19. Widowed parent grant — amendment.
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20. Jobseeker’s allowance — improvement.
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21. Pre-retirement allowance — amendments.
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22. One-parent family payment — increase in earnings limit.
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23. Relevant payments — conditions for receipt.
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24. Payment of carer’s allowance in certain circumstances.
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25. Supplementary welfare allowance — amendments.
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26. Disability allowance — amendment to disqualification.
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27. Child benefit — amendment.
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28. Respite care grant — increase in grant and amendments.
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29. Payments — amendment.
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30. Habitual residence condition — amendment.
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31. Disclosure of certain information.
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32. Personal public service number — amendments.
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33. Budgeting in relation to social welfare payments — amendment.
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34. Appointment of deciding officers — amendment.
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35. Schedule 3 — amendments.
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36. Supplementary welfare allowance — calculation of means amendments.
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PART 3
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Amendments to Pensions Act 1990
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37. Amendments to Pensions Act 1990.
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PART 4
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Miscellaneous Amendments to other Acts
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38. Amendment to Taxes Consolidation Act 1997.
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39. Attendance before Public Accounts Committee — amendments to other Acts.
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SCHEDULE 1
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Amendments to Supplementary Welfare Allowance
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SCHEDULE 2
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Amendments to Pensions Act 1990
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PART 1
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Amendments relating to Trust Retirement Annuity Contracts
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PART 2
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Amendments relating to Fines and Penalties
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PART 3
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Miscellaneous Amendments
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SCHEDULE 3
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Attendance before Public Accounts Committee
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PART 1
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Amendment to Combat Poverty Agency Act 1986
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PART 2
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Amendment to Family Support Agency Act 2001
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Acts Referred to
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Adoptive Leave Act 1995
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1995, No. 2
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Child Care Act 1991
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1991, No. 17
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Combat Poverty Agency Act 1986
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1986, No. 14
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Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993
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1993, No. 8
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Family Support Agency Act 2001
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2001, No. 54
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Health Contributions Act 1979
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1979, No. 4
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Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992
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1992, No. 12
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Maternity Protection Act 1994
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1994, No. 34
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Pensions Act 1990
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1990, No. 25
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Pensions Acts 1990 to 2006
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Pensions (Amendment) Act 1996
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1996, No. 18
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Social Welfare Act 2005
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2005, No. 30
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Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2005
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2005, No. 4
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Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005
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2005, No. 26
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Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Act 2006
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2006, No. 5
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Taxes Consolidation Act 1997
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1997, No. 39
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Number 8 of 2007
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SOCIAL WELFARE AND PENSIONS ACT 2007
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