Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Short title.                        1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Oaths Act, 1909; and the Oaths Act, 1888, and this Act may be cited together as the Oaths Acts, 1888 and 1909.

51 & 52 Vict. c. 46.
Manner of administration of oaths.  2.—(1) Any oath may be administered and taken in the form and manner following:—
The person taking the oath shall hold the New Testament, or, in the case of a Jew, the Old Testament, in his uplifted hand, and shall say or repeat after the officer administering the oath the words “I swear by Almighty God that . . . . .”, followed by the words of the oath prescribed by law.

(2) The officer shall (unless the person about to take the oath voluntarily objects thereto, or is physically incapable of so taking the oath) administer the oath in the form and manner aforesaid without question:
Provided that, in the case of a person who is neither a Christian nor a Jew, the oath shall be administered in any manner which is now lawful.

Definition.                         3. In this Act the word “officer” shall mean and include any and every person duly authorised to administer oaths.

Commencement and extent.            4.—(1) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January nineteen hundred and ten.

(2) This Act shall not apply to Scotland.


[25 th December, 2014]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:
Definition
1. In this Act “Principal Act” means the Health Insurance Act 1994 .

Amendment of section 7 of Principal Act
2. (1) Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) in subsection (5)(b), by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (i):
“(i) (I) to a person who is of or over the age of 18 years and under the age of 21 years, such a net premium being not more than 50 per cent of the net premium in respect of a person other than the persons specified in this subsection under a health insurance contract effected by that undertaking,
(II) to a person who is of or over the age of 21 years and under the age of 22 years, such a net premium being not less than 51 per cent and not more than 60 per cent of the net premium in respect of a person other than the persons specified in this subsection under a health insurance contract effected by that undertaking,
(III) to a person who is of or over the age of 22 years and under the age of 23 years, such a net premium being not less than 61 per cent and not more than 70 per cent of the net premium in respect of a person other than the persons specified in this subsection under a health insurance contract effected by that undertaking,
(IV) to a person who is of or over the age of 23 years and under the age of 24 years, such a net premium being not less than 71 per cent and not more than 80 per cent of the net premium in respect of a person other than the persons specified in this subsection under a health insurance contract effected by that undertaking,
(V) to a person who is of or over the age of 24 years and under the age of 25 years, such a net premium being not less than 81 per cent and not more than 90 per cent of the net premium in respect of a person other than the persons specified in this subsection under a health insurance contract effected by that undertaking, and
(VI) to a person who is of or over the age of 25 years and under the age of 26 years, such a net premium being not less than 91 per cent and not more than 100 per cent of the net premium in respect of a person other than the persons specified in this subsection under a health insurance contract effected by that undertaking,”,
and
(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5):
“(5A) Where a registered undertaking proposes to reduce the net premium payable in the manner provided by subsection (5)(b)(i), it shall do so in relation to all classes of persons referred to in clauses (I) to (VI) of that subsection in the manner provided in those clauses.”.

(2) Subsection (1) comes into operation on 1 May 2015.
Amendment of section 7A of Principal Act
3. Section 7A of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) in subsection (2), by the substitution of “Notwithstanding section 7, but subject to subsections (2A) and (3), a registered undertaking shall require,” for “Notwithstanding section 7 but subject to subsection (2A), a registered undertaking may require,”, and
(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):
“(3) Any obligation to require the payment of such greater amount is subject to regulations under subsection (6) (whether made before, on or after the commencement of section 3 of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2014).”.

Amendment of section 8 of Principal Act
4. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):
“(3) For the purposes of this Act, the Minister may prescribe the maximum waiting periods for eligibility for services or payments, or both, under a health insurance contract which a registered undertaking may impose in respect of the person effecting the contract or his or her dependents including, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, in respect of a person who—
(a) is of or under a prescribed age,
(b) is of or over a prescribed age,
(c) is suffering from a medical condition when the contract is effected,
(d) effects a health insurance contract in the State without previously having effected a health insurance contract in the State,
(e) effects a health insurance contract with the undertaking having previously effected a health insurance contract with that undertaking whether in respect of the same or different services or payments, or both, or
(f) effects a health insurance contract with the undertaking having previously effected a health insurance contract with another registered undertaking whether in respect of the same or different services or payments, or both.”,
(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (5):
“(5) Where a health insurance contract (‘the first-mentioned contract’) effected with a registered undertaking (including such undertaking which is a restricted membership undertaking) ceases to be in force and a person who was a party to or named in that contract effects, within such period after that cesser as may be prescribed, another health insurance contract with a registered undertaking (‘the second-mentioned contract’), then insofar as the second-mentioned contract is in respect of such services or payments, or both, as would have been provided or payable, as appropriate, under the first-mentioned contract—
(a) the waiting period for eligibility for the service or the payment, or both, under the second-mentioned contract to—
(i) the person, or
(ii) any other person who is named in the contract and was also a party to or named in the first-mentioned contract,
shall not be any longer than it would have been if the second-mentioned contract had been effected at the time the first-mentioned contract had been effected, and
(b) there shall be deemed to be expired so much of that waiting period as is equal to so much of the like period under the first-mentioned contract as had expired at the time of the cesser aforesaid.”,
and
(c) by the deletion of subsection (6).
Amendment of section 11C of Principal Act
5. (1) Section 11C of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1)(b), by the substitution of “1 March 2015” for “1 March 2014”.
(2) Subsection (1) comes into operation on 1 March 2015.
Amendment of Schedule 3 to Principal Act
6. (1) Schedule 3 to the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of “€90.00” for “€60.00”.
(2) Subsection (1) comes into operation on 1 March 2015.
(3) Schedule 3 to the Principal Act, amended by subsection (1), only applies in the case of a health insurance contract entered into or renewed on or after 1 March 2015 (and, accordingly, that Schedule, as in force immediately before that date, shall continue to apply in the case of a health insurance contract entered into or renewed on or after 1 March 2014 but before 1 March 2015).

Amendment of Schedule 4 to Principal Act
7. (1) Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following Table for Table 2:
“TABLE 2
AMOUNTS APPLICABLE ON OR AFTER 1 MARCH 2015
Class of Insured Person                                                                                Amount of premium to be paid from Fund
Male aged 50 years and over but less than 55 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be    Nil
Male aged 50 years and over but less than 55 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be        Nil
Female aged 50 years and over but less than 55 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be  Nil
Female aged 50 years and over but less than 55 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be      Nil
Male aged 55 years and over but less than 60 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be    Nil
Male aged 55 years and over but less than 60 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be        Nil
Female aged 55 years and over but less than 60 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be  Nil
Female aged 55 years and over but less than 60 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be      Nil
Male aged 60 years and over but less than 65 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be    €200
Male aged 60 years and over but less than 65 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be        €425
Female aged 60 years and over but less than 65 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be  €150
Female aged 60 years and over but less than 65 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be      €300
Male aged 65 years and over but less than 70 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be    €525
Male aged 65 years and over but less than 70 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be        €1,075
Female aged 65 years and over but less than 70 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be  €350
Female aged 65 years and over but less than 70 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be      €725
Male aged 70 years and over but less than 75 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be    € 825
Male aged 70 years and over but less than 75 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be        €1,750
Female aged 70 years and over but less than 75 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be  €600
Female aged 70 years and over but less than 75 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be      €1,200
Male aged 75 years and over but less than 80 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be    €1,025
Male aged 75 years and over but less than 80 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be        €2,250
Female aged 75 years and over but less than 80 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be  €800
Female aged 75 years and over but less than 80 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be      €1,700
Male aged 80 years and over but less than 85 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be    €1,475
Male aged 80 years and over but less than 85 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be        €2,975
Female aged 80 years and over but less than 85 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be  €1,025
Female aged 80 years and over but less than 85 years on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be      €2,125
Male aged 85 years and over on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be                           €1,750
Male aged 85 years and over on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be                               €3,725
Female aged 85 years and over on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (non-advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be                         €1,125
Female aged 85 years and over on the date the relevant contract (being a relevant contract (advanced cover)) is renewed or entered into, as the case may be                             €2,475
”.
(2) Subsection (1) comes into operation on 1 March 2015.
Amendment of section 125A of Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999
8. (1) Section 125A of the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 is amended by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “specified rate”:
“ ‘specified rate’ means—
(a) in respect of relevant contracts renewed or entered into on or after 1 January 2015 and on or before 28 February 2015—
(i) €100.00 in respect of an insured person aged less than 18 years insured under a relevant contract which provides for non-advanced cover,
(ii) €135.00 in respect of an insured person aged less than 18 years insured under a relevant contract which provides for advanced cover,
(iii) €290.00 in respect of an insured person aged 18 years or over insured under a relevant contract which provides for non-advanced cover, and
(iv) €399.00 in respect of an insured person aged 18 years or over insured under a relevant contract which provides for advanced cover,
and
(b) in respect of relevant contracts renewed or entered into on or after 1 March 2015—
(i) €80.00 in respect of an insured person aged less than 18 years insured under a relevant contract which provides for non-advanced cover,
(ii) €135.00 in respect of an insured person aged less than 18 years insured under a relevant contract which provides for advanced cover,
(iii) €240.00 in respect of an insured person aged 18 years or over insured under a relevant contract which provides for non-advanced cover, and
(iv) €399.00 in respect of an insured person aged 18 years or over insured under a relevant contract which provides for advanced cover.”.
(2) Subsection (1) comes into operation on 1 January 2015.
Short title, collective citation and construction
9. (1) This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2014.
(2) The Health Insurance Acts 1994 to 2013 and this Act (other than section 8 ) may be cited together as the Health Insurance Acts 1994 to 2014 and shall be construed together as one Act.


Defects of this act supplied, 29 G. 2. 15.
42 E. 3. 9. Eng.
1 R. 2. 11. Eng.
1 H. 5. 4. Eng.
23 H. 6. 7. Eng.
All which acts, of force in Ireland, have been eluded.
Laws for execution of office of under-sheriff, &c. not hereby altered, to be put in execution.

WHEREAS by an act of Parliament made in England in the forty second year of King Edward the third it is enacted, “That no sheriff, under-sheriff, or sheriffs-clerk, shall abide in his office above one year;” and by another act made in England in the first year of King Richard the second it is enacted, “That none, who hath been sheriff for a year, shall within three years next ensuing be chosen again, or put into the office of sheriff, if there be other persons in the county sufficient of possession and goods to answer the King and his people;” and by another act made in England in the first year of King Henry the fifth it is enacted, “That they, which be bayliffs of sheriffs for one year, shall be in no such office by three years next following, except bayliffs of sheriffs, which be inheritable in their sheriff-wicks; and that no under-sheriff, sheriffs-clerk, receiver, or sheriffs-bayliff, be attorney in any of the King's courts, during the time that he is in his office with any such sheriff;” and by another act of Parliament made in England, in the twenty third year of King Henry the sixth it is enacted, “That if any sheriff or under-sheriff, or sheriffs-clerk, occupy the office of sheriff, under-sheriff, or sheriffs-clerk, contrary to any of the said statutes, or against the effect or intent of them, he shall forfeit the sum of two hundred pounds yearly as long as he so occupieth; and that every pardon to be made for such offence or occupation shall be void; and that any liege-man who will sue for the said forfeiture shall be received and admitted to sue an action of debt in his own name; the King to have the one half of what shall be recovered by such suit, and he or they that will sue to have the other half;” all which acts are of force in this kingdom: and whereas the said acts have been notoriously eluded by under-sheriffs, sheriffs-clerks, deputies, and bayliffs, continuing in their offices for several years together, one year as under-sheriff, other as sheriffs-clerk or deputy, receiver or bayliff, and by taking the said offices by turns, and in other persons names in trust, and receiving the profits for their own use, which hath been the occasion of much corruption, delay of justice, oppression of the subjects, and other mischiefs: for remedy whereof, and for the better and more effectual execution of such wholsome and necessary laws, be it enacted and declared by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That all and every the laws and statutes now in force for or touching the execution of the office of under-sheriff or sheriffs-clerk, or not hereby altered or repealed, shall be duly put in execution according to the tenor of the said laws, and under the penalties therein contained, as by the said laws are directed.[a ]

Persons nominated to any of said offices shall first give 200l. security before a master, that it is not in trust for one who hath executed it in 3 years,  III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every person and persons, who shall after the said sixth day of November one thousand seven hundred and eleven be nominated, constituted, or appointed under-sheriffs, sheriffs-clerk, or county-clerk, within any county, or county of a city or town, shall, before he or they shall exercise, officiate, or in any manner execute the said office or duty of an under-sheriff, or sheriffs-clerk, enter into a recognizance to her Majesty, her heirs and successors, with sufficient security, in the penalty of two hundred pounds, before a master of the high court of Chancery, or before a master extraordinary for taking affidavits in the country, who are hereby authorized and required to take such recognizances, conditioned that he has not taken the said office, duty, or imployment, to the use of or in trust for any person or persons, who was or hath been under-sheriff or sheriffs-clerk, or executed either of the said offices or imployments in the said county, or county of a city or town, within the space of three years then next preceding, or any other person or persons in trust for such preceding sheriff, [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1879] and that he will execute the same in person; and that all the fees and perquisites, benefits and advantages, of what nature or kind soever, are intirely to his own proper use, benefit, and advantage, or to the proper use, benefit, and advantage of the high sheriff, and that he neither shall or will forbear, postpone, or delay the execution or return of any writ or process, that shall come to his hands, or be lodged in the sheriff's office, for any gratuity, reward, or other consideration whatsoever; which said recognizance, so taken, shall be in two months after the taking thereof returned into her Majesty's court of Exchequer; for the recording of which recognizance shall be received the sum of two shillings and six pence, and no more.

and that he a will personally execute, and that all fees are to his or the high sheriff's use, and not to delay execution or return of writs.

The recognisance in two months to be returned in Exchequer.
Penalty 500l. (as before) for acting without recognisance and taking said oath.                                                                             V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any such under-sheriff, sheriffs-clerk, or county-clerk, or any other person shall execute such office or duty, or any way officiate therein, before he shall have entered into such recognizance, and taken such oath as aforesaid, such under-sheriff, sheriffs-clerk, and county-clerk, or other person officiating as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of five hundred pounds,
Under-sheriff, &c. not to act as clerk of the peace,                                                                                VII. And whereas the under-sheriffs and sheriffs clerks in several counties of this kingdom procure to themselves, or some in trust for them, a deputation from the clerks of the peace and crown of the said counties, wherein they officiate as under-sheriff or sheriffs-clerk, and by their cunning contrivance and management procure many persons for frivolous matters to be presented by the grand jury at the quarterly sessions, in order to have it more in their power to oppress the country, and issue process against such persons, thereby to gain to themselves fees as under-sheriffs: for remedy whereof, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no under-sheriff or sheriffs clerk, or any in trust for them, or to their use, shall from and after the sixth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eleven, execute, exercise, or in any manner act, or officiate as clerk of the peace for the same county, he shall so act as under-sheriff, sheriffs-clerk, or county clerk as aforesaid, under the forfeiture or penalty of five hundred pounds for every time he shall so act, execute, or officiate, to be recovered by such person or persons who will sue for the same in any of her Majesty's Four courts of Dublin by bill, plaint, or information, in which no essoign, protection, or wager of law shall be allowed, or more than one imparlance, and to be distributed in manner as aforesaid. [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1879.]

penalty 500l. as before.
[(a) This section is repealed in part in general terms by 5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 55, s. 4. which enables an under-sheriff to be re-appointed to his office in successive years.]

[(a) This section is repealed in part in general terms by 5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 55, s. 4. which enables an under-sheriff to be re-appointed to his office in successive years.]