S.I. No. 53/1951 - Unemployment Assistance (Employment Period) Order, 1951.

S.I. No. 53 of 1951.

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIOD) ORDER, 1951.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the joint operation of subsection (3) of section 4 and subsection (1) of section 7 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 (No. 46 of 1933) and the Social Welfare (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 1) Order, 1947 ( S. R. & O. No. 18 of 1947 ), hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Unemployment Assistance (Employment Period) Order, 1951.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The following Regulations shall have effect for the purposes of subsection (3) of section 4 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 (No. 46 of 1933), that is to say :—

I. The period commencing on the 14th day of March, 1951, and ending on the 23rd day of October, 1951, shall be an employment period in respect of the following class of persons, namely, every person—

(a) whose place of residence is not situate within any county or other borough, urban district or town, and

(b) who is the occupier of land of which the rateable valuation or the aggregate rateable valuations exceeds or exceed £4

II. For the purpose of these Regulations—

(a) the word "land" means land entered as such in the valuation list, within the meaning of the Valuation Acts.

(b) land let for depasturage for a period of less than one year shall be deemed to be occupied by the person who was the occupier thereof immediately before such letting.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare, this 2nd day of March, 1951.

(Signed) W. MAGUIRE, Secretary,

Department of Social Welfare.

A person authorised under Section 15 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , to authenticate the seal of the said Minister.