Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2005

Unemployment benefit, unemployment assistance and farm assist — amendment to disqualifications.

13.—The Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting the following after section 47(3):

“(3A) A person shall be disqualified for receiving unemployment benefit during any week in which he or she is employed under a scheme administered under the aegis of the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and known as the Rural Social Scheme.”,

(b) by substituting the following for subsection (1) (as amended by section 27 of the Act of 2000) of section 125:

“(1) A person shall be disqualified for receiving unemployment assistance while he or she is—

(a) an inmate of an institution maintained wholly or partly out of public moneys or by a local authority,

(b) employed during any week under a scheme administered by An Foras Áiseanna Saothair and known as Community Employment, or

(c) employed during any week under a scheme administered under the aegis of the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and known as the Rural Social Scheme.”,

and

(c) by inserting the following after section 191Q(1)(a) (inserted by section 15 of the Act of 1999):

“(aa) employed during any week under a scheme administered under the aegis of the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and known as the Rural Social Scheme,”.