Unemployment Insurance Act, 1946

Statutory conditions for receipt of special benefit.

5.—The statutory conditions for the receipt of special benefit by a person are that such person—

(a) makes a claim therefor in the prescribed manner,

(b) served, during the whole or any part of the period which commenced on the 3rd day of September, 1939, and ended on the 14th day of August, 1945, in the Forces of the United Kingdom in service of any kind specified in the arrangements,

(c) was, at any time before entering service in the said Forces, ordinarily resident in the State,

(d) has been discharged from the said Forces,

(e) has not less than thirty contributions credited to him in the British Unemployment Fund in respect of service in the said Forces in respect of the two years immediately preceding the date of his first claim for special benefit,

(f) satisfies the conditions (other than those relating to contributions) for the receipt of unemployment benefit under the Irish Acts,

(g) is free from the disqualifications (other than the disqualification relating to contributions) for the receipt of unemployment benefit under the Irish Acts, and

(h) has not received in respect of special benefit the aggregate amount which may, under subsection (2) of section 6 of this Act, be paid to him.