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Appointment and duties of social welfare officers.
[1935 WOPS, ss. 47, 48; 1960 MP, s. 24]
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185.—(1) The Minister may, with the sanction of the Minister for the Public Service, appoint such and so many persons as he thinks proper to be social welfare officers for the purposes of this Chapter.
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(2) Every such officer shall investigate into and report to the Minister upon any claim for or in respect of a pension and any question arising on or in relation to a pension which may be referred to him by the Minister, and may, for the purpose of such investigation and report, require a claimant for a pension or a pensioner or any employer of the claimant or pensioner to furnish him with such information and to produce to him for inspection such documents relative to that claimant or pensioner as he may reasonably require.
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(3) If a person, being a claimant for a pension or a pensioner or the employer of a claimant for a pension or a pensioner, fails to furnish to a social welfare officer such information as he is required by this section to furnish to him or to produce to a social welfare officer for inspection such documents as he is required by this section to produce to him, the person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding £5.
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