Social Welfare Act, 1991
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Linking period in unemployment assistance claims. |
52.—(1) Section 135 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection: | |
“(2) For the purposes of this Chapter, any 3 days of unemployment, whether consecutive or not, within a period of 6 consecutive days shall be treated as a continuous period of unemployment, and any two such periods not separated by more than 52 weeks shall be treated as one continuous period of unemployment, and continuously unemployed shall be construed accordingly.”. | ||
(2) Subsection (2) of section 150 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of “52 weeks” for “20 weeks”. |