S.I. No. 350/2005 - Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 4) (Family Income Supplement) Regulations 2005

S.I. No. 350 of 2005 .

SOCIAL WELFARE (CONSOLIDATED PAYMENTS PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 4) (FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENT) REGULATIONS 2005.

The Minister for Social and Family Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4 (as amended by section 26 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2005 (No. 4 of 2005)) and 202 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 1993 (No. 27 of 1993), hereby makes the following regulations:

Citation and construction.

1. (1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment (No. 4) (Family Income Supplement) Regulations 2005.

(2) These regulations and the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) Regulations 1994 to 2005.

Definitions.

2. In these regulations, “the Principal Regulations” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions Regulations 1994 ( S.I. No. 417 of 1994 ).

Interpretation.

3. The Principal Regulations are amended in article 94 bydeleting “other than non-pecuniary emoluments,” in the definition of “earnings from employment”.

Persons regarded as being in remunerative full-time employment.

4. The Principal Regulations are amended in article 97 (as substituted by article 4 of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Payments Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1996 ( S.I. No. 189 of 1996 )) by the insertion of “, employment under a scheme administered under the aegis of the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and known as the Rural Social Scheme” after “Community Employment”.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing regulations.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purpart to be a legal interpretation.)

These regulations provide for including benefit-in-kind in the calculation of earnings from employment for the purposes of Family Income Supplement.

In addition, these regulations also provide that where a person is employed under the Rural Social Scheme they will not be entitled to receive Family Income Supplement.