Insurance (Intermittent Unemployment) Act, 1942

Payment of supplementary benefit by employers.

32.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and to such directions as may be given by the Minister either generally or in any particular case, any amount or amounts of supplementary benefit to which an insured person becomes entitled shall be paid to him by his employer, and the insured person and his employer shall, in respect of each such payment, supply to the Minister such particulars, and complete and transmit such forms, including the insured person's acknowledgment of the amount received by him, as may be prescribed.

(2) An insured person who is not satisfied that the amount of supplementary benefit paid to him by his employer is the amount which he is entitled to receive under the provisions of this Act or his employer, at his request, shall be entitled to apply to an insurance officer to determine, in accordance with the provisions of this Act relating to the determination of questions as to payment of supplementary benefit, the amount of supplementary benefit to which he is entitled.

(3) Where a local officer or other person to whom a report in relation to the intermittent unemployment of an insured person has been sent in accordance with the immediately preceding section sends to the employer of such insured person a notification that he is not satisfied that the stoppage of work to which the report relates was due to inclement weather or that the other provisions of this Act governing the payment of supplementary benefit are fulfilled, or where in any case an employer is in doubt whether supplementary benefit is payable or as to the amount or rate of supplementary benefit payable the employer shall forthwith apply to an insurance officer to determine the question in accordance with the provisions of this Act relating to determination of questions as to payment of supplementary benefit.

(4) If in any case an insured person has not received payment of any supplementary benefit to which he believes he is entitled under this Act and is not satisfied that the question of his title to receive such benefit has been referred to an insurance officer under the provisions of sub-section (3) of this section he shall be entitled either to request his employer so to refer it or himself to refer the question to an insurance officer for determination.

(5) An employer who receives an insured person's request to refer a question of his title to supplementary benefit for an insurance officer's determination shall, unless he has already done so, forthwith refer the question to an insurance officer for determination.

(6) Where in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) of this section any question has to be referred to an insurance officer, the insured person shall not be entitled to receive payment from his employer under sub-section (1) of this section unless and until it is determined by the insurance officer that he is so entitled, and the employer shall not make such payment pending such determination or except in accordance therewith.