Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act, 1924
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Special benefit in respect of military service of persons not insured contributors. |
3.—(1) Every person enlisted in the military forces of Saorstát Eireann whose period of service terminated on or before the 29th day of June, 1924, not being a person to whom section 4 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1924 , applies shall, subject to the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Acts 1920 to 1924 relating to the payment of Unemployment Benefit so far as they are not inconsistent with this section, be entitled to receive payments (in this Act referred to as “Special Benefit”) at weekly or other prescribed periods during the Fourth Benefit Year, at such rates as are authorised by or under the Unemployment Insurance Acts 1920 to 1924 for persons entitled to Unemployment Benefit and Increased Benefit so long as the Statutory conditions specified in the Principal Act continue to be fulfilled and so long as he is a person who would not be disqualified under that Act to receive Unemployment Benefit: | |
Provided that proof of continuous unemployment prior to the date of the passing of this Act shall be accepted for the purpose of a claim to Special Benefit. | ||
(2) For the purpose of qualifying any person to receive Special Benefit under this section, but for no other purpose, there shall be deemed to have been paid in respect of him into an Unemployment Fund (in this Act referred to as “The Special Unemployment Fund”) such number of contributions as are sufficient so to qualify him. | ||
(3) No person shall receive more Special Benefit than in the proportion of one week's Special Benefit for every six contributions deemed to have been paid for him under the last preceding sub-section. | ||
(4) No person shall receive Special Benefit for more than fourteen weeks in the Fourth Benefit Year or in respect of any period of less than one day. | ||
(5) For the purposes of this section there shall be established, under the control and management of the Minister for Industry and Commerce (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”) a fund called the Special Unemployment Fund into which shall be paid, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas such sum or sums as may be required for providing Special Benefit under this section and out of which Special Benefit shall be payable. | ||
(6) Section 11 of the principal Act and sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922, shall apply to all claims for Special Benefit and all questions which shall arise in connection with such claims and as to whether any person is a person to whom this section applies. | ||
(7) The Minister may make rules providing for any matters incidental to the receipt of Special Benefit. |