Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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Procedure. [1942 IU, s. 42] |
261.—(1) The Minister may— | |
(a) prescribe the evidence to be required as to the fulfilment of the conditions set out in section 253 and the other provisions of this Part relating to an insured person's title to supplementary benefit, and for that purpose require the attendance of insured persons at such offices or places and at such times as may be required, and require employers to answer inquiries relating to any matters in connection with which information is required to enable an insured person's title to supplementary benefit to be determined; | ||
(b) prescribe the time, manner and form of— | ||
(i) the payment by employers to insured persons of supplementary benefit due to them, | ||
(ii) the repayment out of the Fund to employers of amounts of supplementary benefit paid by them, | ||
(iii) raising questions for determination by deciding officers, and | ||
(iv) the doing of any other thing incidental to the reporting of intermittent unemployment, the acknowledgment of the receipt of reports of intermittent unemployment and the paying of supplementary benefit and the repayment out of the Fund of supplementary benefit paid by employers; | ||
(c) by regulations require employers, insured persons and others to furnish such information as the Minister may consider desirable in connection with payments of supplementary benefit and the occurrence of intermittent unemployment; | ||
(d) prescribe the practice and procedure to be followed on the consideration and examination of questions to be considered and determined by appeals officers and deciding officers; | ||
(e) by regulations provide for the appointment of a person to receive, on behalf of or as representative of a person who becomes of unsound mind or dies, any sums payable out of the Fund to or in respect of him. | ||
(2) Regulations made by the Minister by virtue of subsection (1) (a) shall not be construed as affecting the operation of section 262 . |