Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933

Qualification certificates.

10.—(1) Any person may, subject to the provisions of this section, apply in the prescribed manner for a qualification certificate.

(2) Where an application for a qualification certificate is duly made by a person for the time being entitled under the immediately preceding sub-section to make such application and such person shows in the prescribed manner that he fulfils the conditions, so far as they are applicable, stated in the next following sub-section of this section he shall be entitled to receive a certificate (in this Act referred to as a qualification certificate) certifying that he fulfils the said conditions.

(3) The conditions referred to in the foregoing sub-section of this section as the conditions to be fulfilled by a person applying for a qualification certificate are:—

(a) that he is a national of Saorstát Eireann;

(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 a county borough or the borough of Dun Laoghaire, fifty-two pounds or, in case he is resident elsewhere in Saorstát Eireann, thirty-nine pounds 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.

(4) Every qualification certificate shall be in the prescribed form and shall contain a statement of the weekly rate corresponding to the annual rate calculated in accordance with this Act of the means of the person to whom such certificate relates.

(5) No application for a qualification certificate shall be made by any person unless and until so much of this Act as authorises persons to apply for qualification certificates has come into force in relation to the area within which such person resides.

(6) Each of the following persons shall for the purposes of this section be a national of Saorstát Eireann, that is to say:—

(a) a person born in Saorstát Eireann or in the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann;

(b) a person born outside Saorstát Eireann or the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann whose mother at the time of his birth was ordinarily resident in Saorstát Eireann or such area;

(c) a person who at the relevant time is and for not less than five consecutive years immediately preceding that time has been ordinarily resident in Saorstát Eireann.