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Children's allowances (modification of qualifications).
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12.—(1) Section 223 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:
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“(1) A child shall be a qualified child (in this Part referred to as a qualified child) for the purposes of children's allowances if—
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(a) he is under the age of 16 years, or
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(b) having attained the age of 16 years he is under the age of 18 years and—
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(i) is receiving full-time instruction by day at any university, college, school or other educational establishment, or
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(ii) is, by reason of physical or mental infirmity, incapable of self-support and likely to remain so incapable for a prolonged period, and
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(c) he is ordinarily resident in the State, and
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(d) he is not detained in a reformatory or an industrial school and is not undergoing imprisonment or detention in legal custody.”.
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(2) This section shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1983.
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