Cap. 318 Art. 84Powers to make regulations. Re-numbered by: XXIV. 1993.2.

(1) The Minister may, from time to time, and with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for finance make regulations for the purposes of -

(a) increasing the rates of benefits, grants, pensions, assistances and allowances payable under this Act;

(b) increasing the category of persons that may be eligible to benefits, grants, pensions, assistances and allowances payable in accordance with this Act;

(c) increasing the income limits for the purpose of establishing entitlement in assessment of means-tested benefits, grants, pensions, assistances and allowances payable under this Act;

(d) increasing the basic wage, salary, income or earnings, whenever Government awards a cost-of-living increase in the rate of the National Minimum Wage as is payable to persons of eighteen years of age or over under the provisions of the Employment and Industrial

Relations Act, for the purposes of -

(i) the payment of social security contributions; and

(ii) assessing the pensionable income;

(e) prescribing conditions regarding nationality, residence and place of birth to be satisfied by a claimant, and the conditions applicable to a child or person in respect of whom an allowance is claimed;

(f) prescribing circumstances in which a child or person not living in his parent’s household may be treated as forming part of that household or another household;

(g) prescribing circumstances in which a person, other than a parent of a child or person, may claim an allowance in respect of such child or such person;

(h) prescribing guidelines for the determination of the medical aspects for the eligibility or otherwise of an applicant for a claim in respect of a benefit, allowance or pension under this Act;

(i) exempting, in terms of article 116A, a category of persons from the payment, in whole or in part, of the further contributions which may be due by them: Provided that the Minister may not by such regulations decrease the rate of benefit, grant, pensions, assistance or allowance payable under this Act to any category of beneficiaries.

(2) For the purposes of sub-article (1), the Minister may by such regulations amend or substitute any of the Schedules to this Act or index thereto.

(3) The Minister responsible for the elderly may, from time to time and with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for finance, make regulations for the purpose of establishing the contribution due by residents of State Financed Residential Services in terms of article 93.

(4) The Minister may, from time to time and with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for finance, make regulations for the purpose of establishing the contribution due by residents of State Financed Residential Services in terms of article 94.

(5) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister may from time to time, and with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for finance, make regulations for the purpose of establishing the payment by the Director of the benefit in respect of the Additional Benefit to counter the Cost of Living, as provided for in Part IX of the Fourteenth Schedule.