Insurance (Intermittent Unemployment) Act, 1942
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Classes of insured persons. |
7.—(1) In this Act— | |
the expression “skilled worker” means— | ||
(a) as respects employment in the building trade, an insured person who is employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship in (i) the capacity of carpenter, joiner, wood-cutting machinist, bricklayer, mason, stonecutter, stonelayer, terrazzo and mosaic worker, floor and wall tiler, plasterer, slater, roof-tiler, painter, paperhanger, decorator, glazier, plumber, heating-fitter, gas-fitter, french-polisher or electrician, or (ii) such other capacity as the Minister may decide generally or in a particular case to be employment as a skilled worker, | ||
(b) as respects employment in any other trade that is declared by an order made by the Minister under this Act to be insurable employment for the purposes of this Act, an insured person who is employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship in (i) a capacity which constitutes such person a skilled worker as defined by such order or (ii) such other capacity as the Minister may decide generally or in a particular case to be employment as a skilled worker; | ||
the expression “unskilled worker” means an insured person who is not a skilled worker; | ||
the expression “young person” means an insured person who has attained the age of sixteen years but has not attained the age of twenty-one years. | ||
(2) A person (other than a person who has attained the age of twenty-one years before the date of the commencement of section 18 of this Act) shall not be regarded as a skilled worker or an unskilled worker until the first day after the termination of the insurance year in which he has attained the age of twenty-one years. | ||
(3) A person who attains the age of twenty-one years after the date of the commencement of section 18 of this Act shall be regarded as a young person until the last day of the insurance year in which he attains that age. | ||
(4) An insured person who is a skilled worker and whose normal occupation alters in such way as to make him an unskilled worker shall be regarded as a skilled worker until such date as it is proved to the satisfaction of the Minister that the normal occupation of the insured person has so altered. | ||
(5) An insured person who is an unskilled worker and whose normal occupation alters in such way as to make him a skilled worker shall be regarded as an unskilled worker until such date as it is proved to the satisfaction of the Minister that the normal occupation of the insured person has so altered. |