S.I. No. 258/1965:

SOCIAL WELFARE (CONTRIBUTIONS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1965.

SOCIAL WELFARE (CONTRIBUTIONS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1965.

I, CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952) and by section 9 of that Act as amended by section 4 of the Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1960 (No. 25 of 1960), hereby make the following Regulations :--

1.--(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1965.

(2) The Social Welfare (Contributions) Regulations, 1953 to 1963, and these Regulations may be cited collectively as the Social Welfare (Contributions) Regulations, 1953 to 1965.

2. In these Regulations " the Principal Regulations " means the Social Welfare (Contributions) Regulations, 1953 ( S.I. No. 5 of 1953 ).

3. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 3rd day of January, 1966.

4. Sub-article (2) of Article 13A (inserted by the Social Welfare (Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1961 ( S.I. No. 139 of 1961 )) of the Principal Regulations, as amended by the Social Welfare (Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1962 ( S.I. No. 210 of 1962 ) and by the Social Welfare (Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1963 ( S.I. No. 263 of 1963 ), is hereby further amended by--

(a) the substitution in paragraph (iii) for the words " commencing on or after the 6th day of January, 1964 ", of the words " in the period commencing on the 6th day of January, 1964, and ending on the 2nd day of January, 1966," and

(b) the addition thereto of the following paragraph :--

" (iv) The amount of a contribution paid in respect of a contribution week commencing on or after the 3rd day of January, 1966, to be returned to an insured person under sub-article (1) of this article shall be--

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 20th day of December, 1965.

CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1965 , makes provision, inter alia, for increases in the rates of insurance contributions with effect as from 3rd January, 1966. These regulations provide for consequential increases in the amounts of contributions determined to have been paid by the insured person in respect of old age (contributory) pension, which amounts may be returned to a person who entered insurance after the age of sixty and who was not insured before the age of sixty under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1952.