Chapter 17:06
Social Welfare Assistance Act
as at 16th September 2016
Act 10/1988
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CHAPTER 17:06
SOCIAL WELFARE ASSISTANCE ACT
Act 10/1988, Act 22/2001.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Application for social welfare assistance.
4. Consideration of application for social welfare assistance.
5. Form of social welfare assistance.
6. Eligibility for social welfare assistance.
7. Beneficiary to report receipt of assistance from any other source.
8. Social welfare assistance to be provided from moneys appropriated by Parliament or
otherwise acquired.
9. Social welfare assistance not assignable or executable.
10. Appeals.
11. Offences and penalties.
12. Repayment of sums overpaid.
13. Regulations.
AN ACT to provide for the granting of social welfare assistance to persons in
need and their dependants; and to provide for matters incidental thereto or
connected therewith.
[Date of commencement: 1st June, 1990.]
1
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Social Welfare Assistance Act [Chapter 17:06].
2
Interpretation
In this Act—
“beneficiary” means any person who receives social welfare assistance;
“dependant”, in relation to an applicant for or beneficiary receiving social welfare
assistance, means—
(a)
any child of the applicant or beneficiary, including a step child, legally adopted
child or child born posthumously who is under eighteen years of age; or