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Unemployment Insurance Act, 1946
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PART III.

Provisions in Relation to Former Members of the Defence Forces Resident in Northern Ireland.

Provisions in relation to former members of the Defence Forces resident in Northern Ireland.

15.—(1) (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Irish Acts, unemployment benefit in respect of contributions acquired by him in the Unemployment Fund under the Act of 1945 shall, during residence in Northern Ireland, be payable to a discharged member of the Defence Forces who was ordinarily resident in Northern, Ireland at any time before enlistment and who but for residence in Northern Ireland would be entitled to unemployment benefit.

(b) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of this subsection, the insurance year following discharge of a member of the Defence Forces shall, if no contribution is paid in respect of him under the Irish Acts during that year, be disregarded for the purposes of subsection (4) of section 8 of the Act of 1920, as amended by section 6 of the Act of 1926.

(2) (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Scheme out-of-work benefit under the Scheme in respect of contributions acquired by him in the Joint Insurance Fund under the Act of 1945 shall, during residence in Northern Ireland, be payable to a discharged member of the Defence Forces who was ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland at any time before enlistment and who but for residence in Northern Ireland would be entitled to out-of-work benefit under the Scheme.

(b) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of this subsection, the insurance year following discharge of a member of the Defence Forces shall, if no contribution is paid in respect of him under the Scheme during that year, be disregarded for the purposes of subsection (4) of section 8 of the Act of 1920, as amended by section 6 of the Act of 1926 and applied to the Scheme.

(3) Every word or expression used in this section which is also used in the Act of 1945 has in this section the same meaning as it has in the Act of 1945.