(1) The Principal Act is amended in section 198 -

(a) in subsection (3), by substituting "subsections (3B), (3D) and (4)" for "subsection (4)",

(b) by inserting the following after subsection (3):

"(3A) Notwithstanding section 191(1), the payment of a supplement towards the amount of rent payable by a person in respect of his or her residence may continue to be made where the person -

(a) engages in remunerative full-time employment and, during the 12 month period immediately before his or her engagement in remunerative full-time employment, the person was not regarded, for the purposes of this Chapter, as being engaged in remunerative full-time employment, or

(b) is participating in -

(i) a scheme known as the Area Allowance Enterprise Scheme, approved by a company known as an Area Partnership, in consultation with the Minister,

(ii) a scheme administered by An Foras Áiseanna Saothair and known as Community Employment, or

(iii) a scheme administered by the Minister and known as the Back to Work Allowance Scheme,

and the person has been accepted as being in need of accommodation under a scheme funded by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and known as the Rental Accommodation Scheme.