Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1965

Operative date of certain decisions in relation to unemployment assistance.

16.—(1) Where a person applies in the manner prescribed under the Acts for a qualification certificate under the Acts, and it is decided by a deciding officer or an appeals officer under the Acts that the person is entitled to hold a qualification certificate—

(a) the decision shall, for the purposes of the Acts, be deemed to have had effect as on and from the date of the making of the application or such subsequent date as may be appropriate, and

(b) the person shall, for the purposes of the Acts, be deemed to have been the holder of a qualification certificate as on and from the date on which the decision came into effect.

(2) The application for unemployment assistance of a person who becomes entitled to a qualification certificate may be deemed to have been made on the date from which the decision in relation to the application of the person for the certificate came into effect or such subsequent date as may be appropriate.