Social Welfare Act, 1948
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Amendment of First Schedule to the Principal Act and amendment of section 8 of the said Act. |
25.—(1) Paragraph (h) of Part II of the First Schedule to the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the words “five hundred pounds” for the words “two hundred and fifty pounds” where the latter words occur. | |
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on such day as the Minister shall by order fix for that purpose. | ||
(3) (a) Any stated insurance year, during the whole or any part of which a person was engaged in any employment, which, before the commencement of subsection (1) of this section, was, by virtue of paragraph (h) of Part II of the First Schedule to the Principal Act, an excepted employment and during which no contribution was paid in respect of that person under the Acts or the Scheme shall, as respects any claim to unemployment benefit or out-of-work benefit made on or after the commencement of subsection (1) of this section, be disregarded for the purposes of subsection (4) of section 8 of the Principal Act, as amended by section 6 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1926 (No. 21 of 1926), or the said subsection (4) as so amended and applied to the Scheme. | ||
(b) In this subsection, the expression “stated insurance year” means— | ||
(i) in relation to a claimant to unemployment benefit, any insurance year in the period which began on the 7th day of October, 1940, and will end on the 3rd day of October, 1948, | ||
(ii) in relation to a claimant to out-of-work benefit, any insurance year in the period which began on the 1st day of July, 1940, and will end on the 30th day of June, 1949. |