Social Welfare (Supplementary Welfare Allowances) Act, 1975

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Exclusion of persons receiving full-time education.

3.—(1) Any person who is receiving full-time instruction by day at any university, college, school or other educational establishment shall not be entitled to supplementary welfare allowance.

(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section are without prejudice to the entitlement of any person to receive supplementary welfare allowance in respect of a person referred to in that subsection who is his adult or child dependant.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, supplementary welfare allowance may, in a case in which there are exceptional circumstances, be granted to a person who would be entitled to receive supplementary welfare allowance but for the provisions of the said subsection (1).