S.I. No. 29/1927 - The Unemployment Insurance (Compensation For Refund) Regulations, 1926.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1927. No. 29.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (Compensation for Refund) REGULATIONS, 1926.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (COMPENSATION FOR REFUND) REGULATIONS, 1926, DATED 23RD JUNE, 1926, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE UNDER THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1926 .

The Minister for Industry and Commerce by virtue of the powers conferred on him by section two of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1926 , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations :—

1. Application for a payment under section two of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1926 (hereinafter referred to as the said section two), shall be made in the appropriate form prescribed in the First Schedule hereto or in such other form as the Minister may in any particular case accept.

2. (1) In making the calculation referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of the said section two regard shall be had to the following matters, that is to say :—

(a) the minimum number of insurance years which in the case of any insured contributor must have elapsed before a repayment under section twenty-five of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), could have been claimed in respect of him ;

(b) the fact that an insured contributor may not live to attain the age at which a repayment under section twenty-five of the principal Act could have been claimed in respect of him ;

(c) the fact that contributions in respect of the number of weeks required by section twenty-five of the principal Act might never have been paid by an insured contributor ;

(d) the fact that contributions may cease for a period comprising five insurance years to be paid in respect of an insured contributor ;

(e) the fact that payment is to be made to an insured contributor as at the fifth day of July, 1926, instead of at the date at which he would have been entitled to receive a repayment under section twenty-five of the principal Act.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) the minimum number of insurance years referred to in paragraph (I) (a) thereof shall in the case of any insured contributor be taken to be either the number ascertained by dividing by fifty the number of contributions necessary in his case to complete the number required by section twenty-five of the principal Act or the number of insurance years which must elapse before he could attain the age of sixty, whichever is the greater (any fraction of an insurance year being reckoned as an insurance year) ; and

(b) the rate of compound interest to be taken into account for the purposes of paragraph (1) (e) thereof shall be five per cent. per annum.

3. (1) Whereas the figures shown in the column of the table contained in the second schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as " index figures ") have been calculated in accordance with the provisions of the said section two and of the last foregoing regulation so as to show in respect of each £1 of the credit balance of an insured contributor the present worth as on the fifth day of July, 1926, of the amount of the excess value of the contributions paid by him as increased (in the case of an insured contributor who has not attained the age of sixty years) by the compound interest mentioned in subsection (1) of the said section : now therefore as respects any insured contributor the present worth of the amount of the excess value of his contributions as increased by any compound interest as aforesaid, if any, shall be calculated by multiplying his credit balance by the index figure appropriate in his case.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) the expression " credit balance " means the sum by which the total amount of the contributions of which account is to be taken paid by an insured contributor exceeds the aggregate of the sums received by him by way of benefit ; and

(b) the index figure appropriate in the case of any insured contributor shall be the index figure shown in the column of the said table representing the number of insurance years in the period during which contributions of which account is to be taken have been paid in respect of him upon the line representing the minimum number of insurance years which must have elapsed before a repayment under section twenty-five of the principal Act could have been claimed in respect of him.

4. These regulations may be cited as the Unemployment Insurance (Compensation for Refund) Regulations, 1926.

Signed by Order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this twenty-third day of June, 1926.

(Signed), GORDON CAMPBELL,

Secretary.

Department of Industry and Commerce.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Local Office of Application ............................................................ ............................................................ .....

Serial Number of Application ............................................................ ............................................................ .

ROINN TIONNSCAIL AGUS TRACHTALA

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS, 1920 TO 1926.

Payment under Section 2 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1926 .

Application by or in respect of an Insured Contributor who had on or before 4th July, 1926 :

(a) Attained the age of 50, but had not attained the age of 60, and

(b) Paid a Minimum of 50 Contributions.

NOTE.—Application in respect of a deceased contributor can be entertained only if he or she died after 4th July, 1926, and had attained the age of 50 by that date.

I, the undersigned, hereby apply to the Minister for Industry and Commerce for the payment of any amount which may be due to me under Section 2 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1926 . I declare that the particulars set out below are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true and accurate.

Signature or Mark of Applicant*............................................................ ....................................

Address ............................................................ ............................................................ ....

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Signature of Witness to Mark of Applicant ............................................................ ....................................

Address ............................................................ ................................................

Date....................192..

* If the Applicant is unable to sign his name, his mark should be witnessed by a person, other than a relative, whose address should be inserted above.

PARTICULARS.

This form when filled up should be taken or posted to an Employment Exchange or Branch Employment Office, together with the Contributor's Unemployment Book and Certificate of Birth. (Birth Certificate required in connection with Unemployment Insurance may be obtained at reduced rates on application to the appropriate Registrar).

If the application is made by the personal representative of a deceased contributor, this form should be accompanied by a form 1.51 duly completed.

I.147.

Local Office of application ............................................................ ......................................

Serial Number of application ............................................................ .........................................................

ROINN TIONNSCAIL AGUS TRACHTALA

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS, 1920 TO 1926.

REFUND OF CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER SECTION 25 OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1920, OR PAYMENT UNDER SECTION 2 of THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1926 .

Application by or in respect of an Insured Contributor who bad attained the age of 60 on or before 4th July, 1926.

I, the undersigned, hereby apply to the Minister for Industry and Commerce for the payment of any amount which may be due to me under Section 25 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920. If not entitled under that Section, I desire to be paid any amount which may be due to me under Section 2 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1926 . I declare that the particulars set out below are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true and accurate.

Signature or Mark of Applicant *............................................................ ...................................

Address ............................................................ ............................................................ ....

............................................................ ............................................................ ....

Signature of Witness to Mark of Applicant ............................................................ ....................................

Address ............................................................ ............................................................ ...

............................................................ ............................................................ ...

Date....................192..

* If the applicant is unable to sign his name, his mark should be witnessed by a person, other than a relative, whose address should be inserted above.

This form when filled up should be taken or posted to an Employment Exchange or Branch Employment Office, together with the Contributor's Unemployment Book and Certificate of Birth. (Birth Certificates required in connection with Unemployment Insurance may be obtained at reduced rates on application to the appropriate Registrar).

If the application is made by the personal representative of a deceased contributor, this form should be accompanied by a form 1.51, duly completed.

I.148.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

COMPENSATION REGULATIONS ; TABLE OF INDEX FIGURES.