Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1987

Employers to furnish particulars of employees to determine claim to assistance.

4.—The Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after section 143A (inserted by section 13 of the Act of 1985 and amended by section 16 of the Act of 1986) of the following section:

“143B.—(1) An employer shall furnish to the Minister in writing in respect of any person who is or was in his employment such details, including periods of employment, as are required by the Minister to enable determination or review of a claim to any assistance by or in respect of that person.

(2) Regulations may specify the details which an employer shall furnish under subsection (1) and prescribe the manner in which such details shall be so furnished.

(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.”.