Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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CHAPTER 2 Unemployment Assistance | ||
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Interpretation. [1935 UA, s. 4; 1952, s. 98; 1970, s. 25] |
135.—(1) For the purposes of this Chapter— | |
references to dependants shall, in relation to any person, be construed as references to adult dependants or to qualified children who normally reside with that person, as the case may require; | ||
[1935 UA, s. 2] | ||
“day” means a period of 24 hours from midnight to midnight or such other period of 24 hours as may, for any general or special purpose, be prescribed; | ||
[1940 UA, s. 1] | ||
“hereditaments” includes all lands, tenements, buildings, and other properties, corporeal or incorporeal, which are required by the Valuation Acts to be valued under those Acts, and also includes a part of any such property which is separately valued under those Acts; | ||
“recipient” means a person entitled to unemployment assistance. | ||
[1948, s. 31] | ||
(2) For the purposes of this Chapter, any 3 days of unemployment, whether consecutive or not, within a period of 6 consecutive days shall be treated as a continuous period of unemployment, and any two such periods not separated by more than 20 weeks shall be treated as one continuous period of unemployment, and “continuously unemployed” shall be construed accordingly. | ||
[1933 UA, s. 2] | ||
(3) Subject to section 156 , each of the following shall be an urban area for the purposes of this Chapter— | ||
(a) every county borough, | ||
(b) the borough of Dun Laoghaire, | ||
(c) every urban district the population of which (as shown by the census of population which is for the time being the latest such census) exceeds 7,000. | ||
[1952, s. 100] | ||
(4) Where a house owned by the corporation or council of an urban area is situate outside such area, a person resident or ordinarily resident in such house shall be deemed to be resident or ordinarily resident in such urban area. | ||
[1933 UA, s. 4] | ||
(5) A person shall not be deemed to be unemployed within the meaning of this Chapter— | ||
(a) on any day on which he works for wages or other remuneration, whether paid in money or in goods or otherwise howsoever, nor | ||
(b) during any period which is in respect of such person an employment period within the meaning of this section. | ||
(6) The Minister may by regulations made by him under this Chapter prescribe, either generally or in respect of any particular class or classes of persons or any particular district or districts, any period to be an employment period and accordingly no person of such class or resident in such district shall during such employment period be regarded as unemployed within the meaning of this Chapter. |