192B Foster care payments etc.

(1) In this section—

“carer” means an individual who is or was a foster parent or relative or who takes care of an individual on behalf of the Health Service Executive;

“foster parent” has the meaning assigned to it in the Child Care (Placement of Children in Foster Care) Regulations 1995 (S.I. No. 260 of 1995);

“relative” has the meaning assigned to it in the Child Care (Placement of Children with Relatives) Regulations 1995 (S.I. No. 261 of 1995).

(2) This section applies to payments made—

(a) to a carer by the Health Service Executive in accordance with—

(i) article 14 of the Child Care (Placement of Children in Foster Care) Regulations 1995, or

(ii) article 14 of the Child Care (Placement of Children with Relatives) Regulations 1995,

(b) at the discretion of the Health Service Executive to a carer in respect of an individual—

(i) who had been in the care of a carer until attaining the age of 18 years,

(ii) in respect of whom a payment referred to in paragraph (a) had been paid until the individual attained the age of 18 years,

(iii) who since attaining the age of 18 years continues to reside with a carer, and

(iv) who has not attained the age of 21 years or where the person has attained such age, suffers from a disability or is in receipt of full-time instruction at any university, college, school or other educational establishment and such disability or instruction commenced before the person attained the age of 21 years,

or

(c) in accordance with the law of any other Member State of the European Communities which corresponds to the payments referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

(3) Payments to which this section applies are exempt from income tax and shall not be taken into account in computing total income for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts.