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Unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance — relaxation of waiting days requirement etc.
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30.—(1) Section 42 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—
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(a) the substitution for subsection (4A) (inserted by section 19(1)(c) of the Act of 1994) of the following subsections:
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“(4A) Notwithstanding subsection (4)(c), where in respect of any day of unemployment (referred to in this subsection as ‘the relevant day of unemployment’) which forms part of a period of interruption of employment a person has not, before the relevant day of unemployment, been entitled, in the said period of interruption of employment, to unemployment benefit in respect of a day of unemployment within the period of two years prior to the relevant day of unemployment, that day shall be treated as the first day of unemployment in a separate period of interruption of employment subject to the provisions of subsection (3) not applying as respects such separate period of interruption of employment.
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(4B) For the purposes of this Chapter and Chapter 2 of Part III, the Minister shall make regulations specifying the circumstances in which a person is or is not to be regarded as being available for or genuinely seeking employment and these circumstances may vary in relation to—
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(a) the person's previous work experience,
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(b) the period for which he has been unemployed, and
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(c) the prevailing employment conditions.”,
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(b) the insertion in section 42(5), after paragraph (d), of the following paragraph—
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“(e) participation in a scheme administered by the Commission of the European Union and known as the European Voluntary Service Initiative.”.
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(2) Section 120 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—
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(a) the substitution in subsection (2) (inserted by section 22(1)(a) of the Act of 1996) for paragraph (a) of the following paragraph:
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“(a) otherwise than as provided for in regulations, a person shall not be entitled to unemployment assistance in respect of the first 3 days of unemployment in any continuous period of unemployment.”, and
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(b) the insertion in subsection (5) after paragraph (d) of the following paragraph:
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“(e) participation in a scheme administered by the Commission of the European Union and known as the European Voluntary Service Initiative.”.
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(3) Section 4(4)(a) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after “42(4),” of “42(4B),”.
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