Unemployment Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1935

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Dependents.

4.—(1) For the purposes of the Principal Act and this Act, the following and no other persons shall be dependents of any particular person, that is to say:—

(a) such person's wife if, but only if, she is living with such person and does not work (otherwise than at her usual household duties) regularly for wages or other remuneration, and is not engaged in any occupation ordinarily carried on for profit, and is not in receipt of any pension, or income sufficient for her support, and

(b) such person's husband if, but only if, he is living with and supported by such person and is prevented by physical or mental infirmity from supporting himself, and

(c) such person's unemployed children (including step-children and children in respect of whom he or she has placed himself or herself in loco parentis) who either have not attained the age of eighteen years and are wholly or mainly supported by such person or have attained the age of eighteen years and have not attained the age of seventy years and are through physical or mental infirmity prevented from supporting themselves and are wholly or mainly supported by such person, and

(d) such person's mother if, but only if, such person wholly or mainly supports her and she has not attained the age of seventy years and either she is a widow and is prevented by physical or mental infirmity from supporting herself or both she and her husband are invalids and prevented by physical or mental infirmity from supporting themselves, and

(e) such person's father if, but only if, such person wholly or mainly supports him and he has not attained the age of seventy years and is an invalid and prevented by physical or mental infirmity from supporting himself, and

(f) such person's orphan brothers and sisters who either have not attained the age of eighteen years and are wholly or mainly supported by such person or have attained the age of eighteen years and have not attained the age of seventy years and are through physical or mental infirmity prevented from supporting themselves and are wholly or mainly supported by such person.

(2) Section 5 of the Principal Act is hereby repealed.

(3) This section shall come into force on such day as may be appointed for the purpose by order (which the Minister is hereby authorised to make) of the Minister.