Unemployment Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1938
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Increase of rates of unemployment assistance. |
4.—(1) Sub-section (1) of section 17 of the Principal Act is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that in the said section 17 the expression “scheduled rate” means the rate of unemployment assistance stated in the Schedule to this Act which is, in the circumstances for the time being existing, applicable to the person in respect of whom the expression is used, and the said section 17 shall be construed and have effect accordingly. | |
(2) All references in the Principal Act to rates of unemployment assistance stated in the Schedule to the Principal Act shall be construed and have effect as references to the rates of unemployment assistance stated in the Schedule to this Act. | ||
(3) The Schedule to the Principal Act is hereby repealed. | ||
(4) The Minister may by order appoint a day to be the day upon which this section shall come into operation, and this section shall come into operation on the day so appointed. |