S.I. No. 82/1993 - Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Social Insurance Provisions) Regulations, 1993.

S.I. No. 82 of 1993.

SOCIAL WELFARE (MISCELLANEOUS SOCIAL INSURANCE PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS, 1993.

The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 (No. of 1981 ) and section 29 of that Act (as amended by section 28 of the Social Welfare Act, 1992 ) hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1 Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Social Insurance Provisions) Regulations, 1993.

2 Substantial loss of employment.

2. The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Social Insurance Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations, 1992 ( S.I. No. 448 of 1992 ) are hereby amended by the substitution for article 6 of the following article:

"6. A claimant shall be regarded, for the purposes of subsection (1) (d) of section 29 of the Principal Act, as having sustained a substantial loss of employment in any period of six consecutive days as the Minister may determine, where he has lost one day of insurable employment:

Provided that the claimant's reckonable earnings are reduced as a consequence of the loss of employment.".

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this 23rd

day of March, 1993.

MICHAEL WOODS,

Minister Social Welfare.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 23rd

day of March, 1993.

BERTIE AHERN,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

One of the qualifying conditions for entitlement to Unemployment Benefit is that the claimant must have sustained a substantial loss of employment. These Regulations amend the circumstances in which a claimant will be regarded as satisfying this condition by providing that a person who has lost at least one day of insurable employment in any week will be regarded as having suffered a substantial loss of employment.