Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1987

Notification by employer of commencement of employment.

2.—The Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after section 15 of the following section:

“15A.—(1) The Minister may require an employer to notify him of the date of commencement of the employment of any person in his employment.

(2) The circumstances in which notification may be required under subsection (1) and the manner of that notification shall be prescribed in regulations.

(3) A person who fails to comply with this section or regulations made hereunder shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—

(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or (at the discretion of the court) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both such fine and such imprisonment, or

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding £10,000 or (at the discretion of the court) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.”.