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Unemployment assistance and supplementary welfare allowance (calculation of rates of payments).
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30.—(1) Section 124 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the deletion of subsection (2).
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(2) Section 177 (1) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—
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(a) the substitution for paragraph (a) (ii) of the following paragraph:
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“(ii) in the case of a person who has means, the amount calculated in accordance with section 178 which would be appropriate in his case if he had no means, reduced by £1 per week for every £1 of his weekly means, and”, and
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(b) the substitution for paragraph (b) of the following paragraph:
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“(b) the weekly means of any person for the purpose of ascertaining his entitlement to supplementary welfare allowance shall be calculated in accordance with the Rules contained in Part III of the Third Schedule:
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Provided that the amount so calculated shall be rounded up to the nearest £1 where it is a multiple of 50p but not also a multiple of £1 and shall be rounded to the nearest £1 where it is not a multiple of 50p or £1.”.
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