Social Welfare Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1962

Amendment of section 10 of Act of 1933.

5.—(1) Section 10 of the Act of 1933 is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (c) (inserted by the Act of 1961) of subsection (3) of the following paragraph, namely:

“(c) that his means, calculated in accordance with this Act, do not exceed an amount per annum equal to fifty-two times—

(i) the amount of the scheduled rate of unemployment assistance applicable to a person who has an adult dependant and is resident in an urban area, and

(ii) in case he has a child dependant or child dependants, so much of the scheduled rate of unemployment assistance applicable to the person as is payable in respect of the child dependant or child dependants, as the case may be;”.

(2) Where—

(a) immediately before the commencement of this subsection, a person is the holder of a qualification certificate in a form prescribed by regulations under subsection (1) of section 7 of the Act of 1933, and

(b) the person fulfils the conditions stated in subsection (3) of section 10 of the Act of 1933, as amended by subsection (1) of this section,

the certificate shall have effect, and any determination in relation to the certificate shall be subject to reversal and to revision in the like manner, as if the certificate were in the form prescribed by regulations under subsection (1) of section 7 of the Act of 1933 which are expressed to come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1962.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1962.