Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981

Additional methods of fulfilling conditions.

[1942 IU, s. 43; 1978 AM, s. 15]

262.—(1) Where supplementary benefit has been paid to an insured person, in respect of any day or part thereof a certificate, in the prescribed form, signed by the insured person or the person who was the employer of the insured person on such day certifying any one or more of the following matters—

(a) that the insured person was intermittently unemployed on such day,

(b) that the hours during which the insured person was intermittently unemployed on such day were working hours,

(c) that such day was not a Sunday or a public holiday within the meaning of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 , and

(d) that such day was not the first day of a spell of insurable employment with the person who was the employer of the insured person,

shall, for the purposes of this Part, be sufficient evidence of the facts so certified, unless and until the contrary is shown to be the case.

(2) Where supplementary benefit has been paid to an insured person a certificate, in the prescribed form, by the insured person that he is the rightful holder of a particular supplementary unemployment book or a certificate, in the prescribed form, by the person who was the employer of that person at the time such supplementary benefit was paid that he is satisfied that the insured person is the rightful holder of such book shall, for the purposes of this Part, be sufficient evidence of the identity of that insured person, unless and until the contrary is shown to be the case.

[1952, s. 122]

(3) Where weekly contributions in respect of an insured person are paid by affixing supplementary insurance stamps to his supplementary unemployment book or otherwise, and supplementary benefit has been paid to the insured person in any insurance year, the following provisions shall, for the purposes of the first condition in section 253 , have effect—

(a) a certificate, in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars, by the person (in this subsection referred to as the employer) who was the employer of the insured person at the time such supplementary benefit was paid that, prior to the week in which occurred the intermittent unemployment for which such supplementary benefit was paid, a specified number of weekly contributions had been paid for that insured person in respect of such insurance year shall be sufficient evidence of the facts so certified, unless and until the contrary is shown to be the case;

(b) a certificate, in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars, by the employer that there was entered, in accordance with regulations made under section 247 on the current supplementary unemployment book of the insured person a statement that a specified number of weekly contributions had been paid for that insured person in respect of the immediately preceding insurance year shall, unless and until the contrary is shown to be the case, be sufficient evidence that there were paid the number of weekly contributions so certified to be so entered.