Social Welfare Act, 1948

Amendment of meaning in the Acts of a continuous period of unemployment and amendment of Article 7 of the Scheme.

24.—(1) For the purposes of the Acts—

(a) any three days (including three days of which one or two is or are before the date of the passing of this Act) of unemployment, whether consecutive or not, within a period of six consecutive days shall be treated as a continuous period of unemployment, and

(b) any such continuous period of unemployment and either another such continuous period, of unemployment or a continuous period of unemployment before the date of the passing of this Act, being separated by a period of not more than twenty weeks, shall be treated as one continuous period of unemployment, and

(c) the expression “continuously unemployed” shall be construed accordingly.

(2) In Article 7 of the Scheme, paragraph (1) (being the paragraph inserted by the Unemployment Insurance (Insurance Industry Special Scheme) Amendment Order, 1942 (S.R. & O., No. 550 of 1942)) shall be deleted and the following paragraph substituted:—

“(1) The conditions for the receipt of out-of-work benefit by a person insured under the Scheme shall be the conditions mentioned in relation to unemployment benefit in section 7 of the Act, as amended by section 10 of the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act, 1921, and by subsection (1) of section 24 of the Social Welfare Act, 1948, and the said section 7 as so amended shall apply for the purposes of the Scheme.”