Unemployment Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1938

Extension of meaning of expression “urban area”.

3.—(1) The Minister may whenever and so often as he thinks fit by order, made with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Local Government and Public Health and after consultation with the council of any urban district the population of which (as shown by the census of population which is for the time being the latest such census) does not exceed seven thousand, direct that such urban district shall be an urban area on the 1st day of April next after the date of such order for the purposes of the Principal Act, the amending Act and this Act, and upon such order being so made such urban district shall be and continue to be an urban area for the purposes aforesaid until otherwise provided by an order under the next following sub-section.

(2) Whenever the Minister has made an order under the next preceding sub-section in respect of an urban district, he may at any time thereafter, if he so thinks proper, by order made with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Local Government and Public Health and after consultation with the council of such urban district, direct that such urban district shall on the 1st day of April next after the date of such order cease to be an urban area for the purposes of the Principal Act, the amending Act and this Act, and upon such order being so made such urban district shall cease on the said 1st day of April to be an urban area for the purposes aforesaid.