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7 1991

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1991

PART I

Preliminary

Short title, construction and collective citation.

1. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Social Welfare Act, 1991.

(2) The Social Welfare Acts, 1981 to 1990, and this Act other than sections 37 , 39 , 46 and 60 to 64 of this Act and subsection (3) of this section shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Social Welfare Acts, 1981 to 1991.

(3) Section 39 (other than subsection (2)) and the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 1990, shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 1991.

Interpretation.

2. —(1) In this Act—

the Principal Act” means the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 ;

the Act of 1983” means the Social Welfare Act, 1983 ;

the Act of 1984” means the Social Welfare Act, 1984 ;

the No. 2 Act of 1985” means the Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1985 ;

the Act of 1986” means the Social Welfare Act, 1986 ;

the Act of 1987” means the Social Welfare Act, 1987 ;

the No. 2 Act of 1987” means the Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1987 ;

the Act of 1988” means the Social Welfare Act, 1988 ;

the Act of 1989” means the Social Welfare Act, 1989 ;

the Act of 1990” means the Social Welfare Act, 1990 ;

the Pensions Act” means the Pensions Act, 1990 .

(2) References in this Act or in any other enactment to “the Social Welfare Acts” means the Principal Act and every enactment which is to be construed together with it as one.