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Payment period.
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7.—(1) Where a person is found to have been a qualified person on a qualifying date the following provisions shall have effect:—
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(a) there shall be appointed for him a payment period which—
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(i) if he was on the qualifying date already entitled to an allowance (whether under this Act or the Act of 1944), shall commence on the expiration of the period for which he was on that date so entitled,
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(ii) if he was not so entitled, shall commence not later than three months after the qualifying date,
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(iii) unless otherwise determined, shall be a period of twenty-six weeks, but shall not in any case be less than fifteen weeks or more than forty-three weeks;
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(b) at any time before the commencement of a payment period so appointed for any person a payment period of different duration may, subject to paragraph (a) of this subsection, be appointed for him in lieu of the said payment period.
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(2) The appointment of payment periods shall be the duty of the deciding officers.
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