S.I. No. 167/1952 - Unemployment Assistance (Qualification Certificate Regulations) (Amendment) Order, 1952.


S.I. No. 167 of 1952.

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (QUALIFICATION CERTIFICATE REGULATIONS) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1952.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (1) of section 7 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 (No. 46 of 1933), as adapted by 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 (Qualification Certificate Regulations) (Amendment) Order, 1952.

2. This Order shall come into operation on the 25th day of June, 1952.

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

4. The Second Schedule to the Unemployment Assistance (Qualification Certificate Regulations) Order, 1934 (S.R. & O., No. 33 of 1934), as amended by the Unemployment Assistance (Qualification Certificate Regulations) (Amendment) Order, 1938 (S.R. & O., No. 194 of 1938), is hereby further amended by the substitution therein for the form of a qualification certificate of the form set out in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE.

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1933 .

QUALIFICATION CERTIFICATE.

Number.................

It is hereby certified that............................................................ ............................................................ ...... (............................................) born at............................................................ .................................. and reisding at............................................................ ....................... fulfils the conditions set out hereon.

The Holder's weekly rate of means corresponding to the annual rate calculated in accordance with the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 , is.....................

Official Stamp.

Unemployment Assistance Officer.

Date............................................................ ..................................................

Signature of Holder............................................................ ........................

To be completed immediately on receipt of certificate.

Witness to signature............................................................ .....................

Address............................................................ .............................................

The conditions to be fulfilled by a person obtaining or holding a qualification certificate under the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 , are :—

(a) that he is, at the date of the application, resident in the State and has, at any time, been resident in the State for a continuous period of at least six months ;

(b) that he has attained the age of eighteen years and has not attained, the age of seventy years ;

(c) that his means, calculated in accordance with this Act, do not exceed in case he is resident in an urban area, ninety-eight pounds and sixteen shillings or, in case he is resident elsewhere in the State, seventy-two pounds and sixteen shillings per annum ;

(d) in the case of a married woman either—

(i) that her husband is a dependant of her, or

(ii) that neither she nor her husband is a dependant of the other and she has one or more dependants ;

(e) in the case of a widow or spinster, that she has one or more dependants ;

( f ) in the case of a widow or spinster who has no dependant, that not less than fifty-two contributions have been paid in respect of her under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1930, as amended by any subsequent enactment, during the period of four years immediately preceding the date of the application.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare, this 17th day of June, 1952.

(Signed) P. J. KEADY,

Assistant 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.