Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933

Dependants.

5.—For the purposes of this Act the following and no other persons shall be the dependants of any particular person, that is to say:—

(a) such person's wife, if but only if she is living with such person and does not work (otherwise than at her usual household duties) regularly for wages or other remuneration, and

(b) such person's husband, if but only if he is living with and supported by such person and is prevented by physical or mental infirmity from supporting himself, and

(c) such person's unemployed children (including stepchildren and children in respect of whom he or she has placed himself or herself in loco parentis) who have not attained the age of eighteen years and are wholly or mainly supported by such person, and

(d) such person's mother, if but only if such person has undertaken responsibility for her support and she has not attained the age of seventy years and either she is a widow and is prevented by physical or mental infirmity from supporting herself or both she and her husband are invalids and prevented by physical or mental infirmity from supporting themselves, and

(e) such person's father, if but only if such person has undertaken liability for his support and he has not attained the age of seventy years and is an invalid and prevented by physical or mental infirmity from supporting himself, and

(f) such person's orphan brothers and sisters who either have not attained the age of eighteen years and are normally supported by such person or have attained the age of eighteen years and have not attained the age of seventy years and are, through physical or mental infirmity, prevented from supporting themselves and are normally supported by such person.