STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS.

S.I. No. 408 of 1981.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES (MAINTENANCE) (NO. 3) REGULATIONS, 1981.

S.I. No. 408 of 1981.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES (MAINTENANCE) (NO. 3) REGULATIONS, 1981.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers vested in her by section 5 and sub-section (5) of section 44 of the Health Act, 1947 ( No. 28 of 1947 ), hereby makes the following Regulations--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) (No. 3) Regulations, 1981.

2. Where a person is or becomes entitled to payment under sub-section (3) of section 44 of the Health Act, 1947 in accordance with the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) (No. 2) Regulations, 1981 ( S.I. No. 342 of 1981 ) to or in respect of himself or his dependants, in respect of the week commencing on the 6th December, 1981, any amount so payable for that week shall be increased by a sum equal to that amount.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

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

The effect of these Regulations is to amend the existing Regulations governing the payment of maintenance allowances to persons being treated for certain infectious diseases--the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) (No. 2) Regulations, 1981 ( S.I. No. 342 of 1981 )--and to provide in respect of the week commencing 6th December 1981, for increases in the maximum rates of allowances payable, by a sum equal to those amounts.

The infectious diseases for which maintenance allowances are payable are acute anterior poliomyelitis, diphtheria, dysnentery, lassa fever, paratyphoid A, paratyphoid B, rabies, salmonella infection, scarlet fever, streptococcal sore throat, tuberculosis, and typhus fever.