Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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Insurable employment. [1942 IU, s. 4; S.I. No. 82 of 1955 ] |
234.—In this Part “insurable employment” means employment by way of manual labour that is either employment in the building, civil engineering or painting trades or employment (in any other trade that is declared by an order made by the Minister under this Part to be insurable employment for the purposes of this Part and is not— | |
(a) employment in the building trade which is— | ||
(i) under any local or other public authority, in any pensionable office, situation or employment in a permanent capacity, or | ||
(ii) in the military service of the State, or | ||
(iii) employment of unskilled workers and of young persons on works undertaken by or on behalf of the Irish Land Commission for the improvement of lands purchased or agreed to be purchased under the Land Purchase Acts, or | ||
(b) employment in the civil engineering or painting trades which is— | ||
(i) under any local or other public authority, or | ||
(ii) employment of unskilled workers and of young persons on work undertaken for the development of bogs or in the course of the establishment and maintenance of forests, or | ||
(iii) employment by the State on work in the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, alteration, repair or demolition of public roads, or | ||
(iv) employment on works undertaken under the Arterial Drainage Act, 1945 , or under the Land Reclamation Act, 1949 , or any Acts for the time being in force replacing or amending those Acts, or | ||
(v) employment by the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs on all work in the erection or laying, alteration, repair, painting, decoration or demolition of poles, masts, standards, pylons, wires or cables for telephone, telegraph or radio communication or for broadcasting, or | ||
(vi) employment by Córas Iompair Éireann where no deductions are made from the wages of employed persons on account of time lost owing to inclement weather, or | ||
(vii) employment by the Electricity Supply Board on work carried out directly by the Board in accordance with its statutory functions. |