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Provisions enabling certain discharged members of the Defence Forces to qualify for out-of-work benefit under the Scheme.
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3.—(1) Every discharged member of the Defence Forces to whom this section applies shall, for the purposes of the provisions of the Scheme relating to the rights of a person with respect to out-of-work benefit under the Scheme but for no other purpose—
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(a) in case he was discharged before, and was not rendering service on, the operative date, be treated as though he were a person in respect of whom a number of contributions equal to the number of weeks during which he rendered service as such member after the 2nd day of September, 1939, had been paid on the operative date into the Joint Insurance Fund,
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(b) in case he is discharged on or after the operative date, be treated as though he were on the date of such discharge a person in respect of whom a number of contributions equal to the number of weeks during which he rendered service as such member after the 2nd day of September, 1939 (excluding any such week which was previously taken into account under paragraph (a) of this subsection or this paragraph) had been paid on the date of such discharge into the Joint Insurance Fund.
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(2) There shall be paid into the Joint Insurance Fund out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, by way of contributions, such sums as will, in the opinion of the Minister for Finance, be sufficient to enable discharged members of the Defence Forces to whom this section applies to be treated in the manner provided by subsection (1) of this section, subject however to the limitation that the aggregate of the said sums shall not exceed a sum calculated at the rate of one shilling for each week of service of each member of the Defence Forces to whom this section applies.
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(3) The sums to be paid under subsection (2) of this section into the Joint Insurance Fund shall be calculated in such manner as the Minister for Finance may direct and shall be paid in such manner and at such dates as may be agreed upon by the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Industry and Commerce.
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(4) This section applies to every member of the Defence Forces—
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(a) in respect of whom, during the two years prior to his joining the Defence Forces, there were paid at least twenty contributions under the Scheme, and
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(b) who is discharged not later than the first anniversary of the expiration of the emergency period.
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