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Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2008 (No. 2)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and General (s. 1)1. Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.Part 2 Amendment of Social Welfare Acts (ss. 2-25)2. Definitions.3. Child benefit - new rates.4. Early childcare supplement - increase in rate.5. Transfer of pension rights to EC institutions scheme.6. Illness benefit - improvement.7. State pension (non-contributory) - improvements.8. One-parent family payment - increase in income limit and amendment.9. Respite care grant - increase.10. Detention in legal custody.11. State pension (contributory) - homemakers.12. Blind welfare allowance.13. Blind welfare allowance - consequential amendments.14. Blind welfare allowance - commencement and transitional.15. Domiciliary care allowance.16. Domiciliary care allowance - consequential amendments.17. Domiciliary care allowance - commencement and transitional.18. Supplementary welfare allowance.19. Claims.20. Payments to persons other than claimant or beneficiary.21. Provisions with respect to habitual residence.22. Proceedings.23. Schedule 3, Part 2.24. Supplementary welfare allowance - calculation of weekly means.25. Amendments of Act of 2007.Part 3 Amendment of Pensions Act 1990 (ss. 26-29)26. Definitions.27. Registered administrators.28. Trustee training.29. Miscellaneous amendments of Pensions Act 1990.Part 4 Amendment of Other Acts (ss. 30-31)30. Amendment of Family Law Act 1995.31. Amendment of Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996.Schedule 1 Amendments Relating to Supplementary Welfare AllowanceSchedule 2 Formal Amendments of the Pensions Act 1990
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AI Summary of 14. Blind welfare allowance - commencement and transitional.

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Version status: Not yet in force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 7 March 2008 - onwards

14. Blind welfare allowance - commencement and transitional.

(1) In this section -

"Chapter 5A" means Chapter 5A (inserted by section 12 of this Act) of Part 3 of the Principal Act;

"former blind welfare allowance" means a grant or allowance in pursuance of a scheme for promoting the welfare of the blind prepared under section 2 of the Blind Persons Act 1920.

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Chapter 5A but subject to subsection (3), where, immediately before the commencement of this section, a person is in receipt of any income arising from the former blind welfare allowance, blind welfare allowance under Chapter 5A is payable to that person on and from that commencement at a rate not less than the rate of the former blind welfare allowance payable to that person immediately before that commencement.

(3) Subsection (2) ceases to apply upon the occurrence, on or after the date of commencement of this section, of a change in the person’s circumstances such as to affect the person’s entitlement under Chapter 5A.

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