Social Welfare Act, 1948

Alteration of rates of unemployment assistance.

32.—(1) There shall be inserted in section 17 of the Principal Act, as subsection (1) thereof, the following subsection:—

“(1) (a) In this section the expression ‘the scheduled rate’ means the rate of unemployment assistance stated in the Schedule to this Act which is, in the circumstances for the time being existing, applicable to the person in respect of whom the expression is used.

(b) Where a house owned by the corporation of a county or other borough or the council of an urban district or the commissioners of a town is situate outside such county or other borough, urban district or town (as the case may be), a person for the time being residing in such house shall, for the purposes of the Schedule to this Act, be deemed to be resident in such county or other borough, urban district or town, and not elsewhere.”

(2) There shall be inserted in the Principal Act, as the Schedule thereto, the particulars set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act.