Insurance (Intermittent Unemployment) Act, 1942

PART VII.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

Provisions in relation to excepted persons whose employment is terminated.

50.—Where a person (in this sub-section referred to as the employer) terminates the employment in an insurable employment of a person (in this sub-section referred to as the employee) who immediately before such termination was an excepted person, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) in case the employee was an excepted person during the twelve weeks immediately preceding such termination, the employer shall pay to the Minister, in respect of such twelve weeks, a sum equal to the amount of the weekly contributions which would, if the employee had not been an excepted person during the said twelve weeks, have been payable in respect of the employee under this Act for the said twelve weeks;

(b) in case the employee was not an excepted person during the twelve weeks immediately preceding such termination, the employer shall pay to the Minister, in respect of the weeks immediately preceding such termination during which the employee was an excepted person, a sum equivalent to the amount of the weekly contributions which would, if the employee had not been an excepted person during those weeks, have been payable under this Act in respect of the employee for those weeks;

(c) no part of any sum paid by the employer under this sub-section shall be recoverable by the employer from the employee;

(d) any sum payable to the Minister by the employer under this section shall, for the purposes of the other provisions (including penal provisions) of this Act, be deemed to be weekly contributions, and those provisions shall apply accordingly;

(e) any sum recovered by or paid to the Minister under this section shall be paid into the Supplementary Unemployment Fund;

(f) any sums recovered by or paid to the Minister under this section in respect of any weeks shall, for the purposes of the first statutory condition, be deemed to be weekly contributions paid under Part III of this Act in respect of the employee for those weeks.