Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933

Determination of applications for qualification certificates.

11.—(1) Every application for a qualification certificate shall be received and considered and every such application and every question arising thereon shall be determined by an unemployment assistance officer, and every question arising in relation to a qualification certificate after the issue of such certificate shall also be determined by an unemployment assistance officer.

(2) An unemployment assistance officer may, if he so thinks proper, instead of determining it himself, refer in the prescribed manner any application or question which falls to be determined by him under this section to the Unemployment Appeals Committee.

(3) Any person aggrieved by the refusal by an unemployment assistance officer of an application by such person for a qualification certificate or by the determination under this section by an unemployment assistance officer of any matter may, within twenty-one days after such refusal or determination or such further time (if any) as may in his case be allowed by the Minister, and in the prescribed manner, require such officer to report such refusal or determination to the Unemployment Appeals Committee and thereupon such officer shall report such refusal or determination to the said Committee in the prescribed manner.

(4) The Unemployment Appeals Committee shall consider in the prescribed manner and decide every application, question, and determination referred or reported to them under this section, and the decision of the said Committee on any such application, question, or determination shall be final and conclusive.