S.I. No. 81/1945 - Unemployment Insurance (Inclusion) Order, 1944.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1945. No. 81.

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (INCLUSION) ORDER, 1944.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (INCLUSION) ORDER, 1944, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE UNDER THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1920.

By virtue of the powers conferred on him by Section 4 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, with the approval of the Minister for Finance, hereby makes the following Order :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Unemploment Insurance (Inclusion) Order, 1944.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The persons specified in the Schedule hereto shall be included among the persons employed within the meaning of the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1943.

SCHEDULE.

1. Any person employed as sub-postmaster remunerated by scale payment, who is mainly dependent for his livelihood on the earnings derived by him from such employment and renders on the average 18 or more hours' personal service in each week in that capacity.

2. Any person employed as collector or deliverer of postal packets under the designation of Allowance Deliverer, or as messenger conveying Post Office mails on station or pier service, who renders more than 18 hours' service in each week in any of these capacities.

3. Any person employed by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs as telephone attendant whose duty is confined to any one or more of the following periods night time, Sundays and Public Holidays, for whom such employment is the principal means of livelihood.

4. Any person employed under the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland as chain or staff man, gauge reader, or attendant on hydrometric survey work who renders more than 18 hours' service in any week in one or more of these capacities.

5. Any person employed as estate bailiff, rent warner, game watcher, shore watcher, wood ranger, or bog ranger, where the employment in one or more of such capacities under one employer involves whole time service.

6. Any person employed under The Irish Sea Fisheries Association, Ltd., as local agent, who renders on the average more than 18 hours' service in each week in that capacity.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 28th day of February, 1945.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

I approve of the above Order.

(Signed) SEÁN T. Ó CEALLAIGH,

Minister for Finance.