Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1964

Operative date of reversals or revisions of certain decisions in relation to unemployment assistance.

11.—(1) Where, as a result of a reversal or revision of a decision, a person becomes entitled to hold a qualification certificate under the Unemployment Assistance Acts, 1933 to 1964, the person shall, for the purposes of those Acts, be deemed to have been the holder of a qualification certificate as on and from the date on which the decision as so reversed or revised came into effect.

(2) Where, as a result of a reversal or revision of a decision, a qualification certificate issued to a person under the Unemployment Assistance Acts, 1933 to 1964, is revoked, the person shall, for the purposes of those Acts, be deemed not to have been the holder of a qualification certificate as on and from the date on which the decision as so reversed or revised came into effect.

(3) Where, as a result of a reversal or revision of a decision, the statement of the weekly rate of means contained in a qualification certificate issued to a person under the Unemployment Assistance Acts, 1933 to 1964, is varied, the person shall, for the purposes of those Acts, be deemed to have been the holder of such certificate as he is entitled to hold under the decision as so reversed or revised as on and from the date on which the decision as so reversed or revised came into effect.

(4) The application for unemployment assistance of a person who becomes entitled to a qualification certificate as a result of a reversal or revision of a decision may be deemed to have been made on the date from which the decision as so reversed or revised came into effect or on any subsequent date.

(5) In this section “decision” means a decision of a deciding officer or an appeals officer in relation to a qualification certificate under the Unemployment Assistance Acts, 1933 to 1964.