Social Welfare Act, 1948

Amendment of meaning in the Acts of a continuous period of unemployment.

31.—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.