S.I. No. 161/1961 - Unemployment Assistance (Qualification Certificate Regulations) (Amendment) Order, 1961.

S.I. No. 161 of 1961.

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (QUALIFICATION CERTIFICATE REGULATIONS) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1961.

I, SEÁN MacENTEE, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 7 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 (No. 46 of 1933), as adapted by the Social Welfare (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 1) Order, 1947 (S.R. & O., No. 18 of 1947), hereby order as follows

1. This Order may be cited as the Unemployment Assistance (Qualification Certificate Regulations) (Amendment) Order, 1961.

2. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1961.

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

4. The Second Schedule to the Unemployment Assistance (Qualification Certificate Regulations) Order, 1934 (S. R. & O., No. 33 of 1934), as amended by the Unemployment Assistance (Qualification Certificate Regulations) (Amendment) Order, 1938 (S. R. & O., No. 194 of 1938), the Unemployment Assistance (Qualification Certificate Regulations) (Amendment) Order, 1952 ( S.I. No. 167 of 1952 ), and the Unemployment Assistance (Qualification Certificate Regulations) (Amendment) Order, 1953 ( S.I. No. 3 of 1953 ), is hereby further amended by the substitution therein for the form of a qualification certificate of the form set out in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE.

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1933 .

QUALIFICATION CERTIFICATE.

Number............................................................ . It is hereby certified that............................................................ ................................................. ............................................................ ............................................................ ........................................ ............................................................ .................................................. (...............................................) residing at............................................................ ............................................................ ....................... fulfils the conditions set out hereon. The Holder's weekly rate of means corresponding to the annual rate calculated in accordance with the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 is............................................................ ........................
Official Stamp	Deciding Officer............................................................ .........................
	Date ............................................................ ............................................
	Signature of Holder............................................................ ....................
	Witness to signature............................................................ .................
To be completed immediately on receipt of certificate.	Address ............................................................ .....................................

The conditions to be fulfilled by a person obtaining or holding a qualification certificate under the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 , are:—

(a) that he is at the date of the application, resident in the State and has at any time, been resident in the State for a continuous period of at least six months;

(b) that he has attained the age of eighteen years and has not attained the age of seventy years;

(d) in the case of a married woman either—

(i) that her husband is a dependant of her, or

(ii) that neither she nor her husband is a dependant of the other and she has one or more dependants;

(e) in the case of a widow or spinster, that she has one or more dependants;

(f) in the case of a widow or spinster who has no dependant, that not less than fifty-two contributions have been paid in respect of her during the appropriate period.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this twenty-ninth day of July, 1961.

SEAN MacENTEE,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1961 , raises the means limits for receipt of a qualification certificate under the Unemployment Assistance Acts from £72 16s. and £98 16s. per annum, according to area of residence, to £100 per annum for all areas. This amendment, which will operate from the 1st August, 1961, necessitates consequential amendment of the prescribed form of a qualification certificate so as to bring the statement therein of the conditions to be fulfilled by a person obtaining or holding a qualification certificate into line with the altered position. This Order prescribes the amended form of a qualification certificate.