Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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Qualification certificates. [1933 UA, s. 10] |
136.—(1) Any person may, subject to this section, apply in the prescribed manner for a qualification certificate. | |
(2) Where an application for a qualification certificate is duly made by a person and he shows in the prescribed manner that he fulfils the conditions, so far as they are applicable, stated in subsection (3), he shall be entitled to receive a certificate (in this Chapter referred to as a qualification certificate) certifying that he fulfils those conditions. | ||
[1933 UA, s. 10; 1980, s. 8] | ||
(3) The conditions referred to in subsection (2) as the conditions to be fulfilled by a person applying for a qualification certificate are— | ||
(a) that he is at the date of the application resident in the State; | ||
(b) that he has attained the age of 18 years and has not attained pensionable age; | ||
(c) that his means, calculated in accordance with this Chapter, do not exceed an amount per annum equal to 52 times— | ||
(i) the amount of unemployment assistance set out at reference 1 A (1) in Part I of the Fourth Schedule applicable to a person who has an adult dependant and is resident in an urban area, and | ||
(ii) in case he has a qualified child or qualified children so much of the unemployment assistance set out at reference 1 A (1) in Part I of the Fourth Schedule applicable to the person as would be payable in respect of that child or those children, as the case may be; and | ||
(d) in the case of a married woman either— | ||
(i) that her husband is a dependant of her, or | ||
(ii) that neither she nor her husband is a dependant of the other and she has one or more dependants. | ||
[1933 UA, s. 10] | ||
(4) Every qualification certificate shall be in the prescribed form and shall contain a statement of the weekly rate corresponding to the annual rate calculated in accordance with this Chapter of the means of the person to whom such certificate relates. |