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Duration of payment.
[1952, s. 16; 1967 MP, s. 5; 1978 AM, s. 13]
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34.—(1) A person who, in respect of any period of interruption of employment, has been entitled to unemployment benefit for 156 days shall not thereafter, subject to subsections (3) and (6), be entitled to that benefit for any day of unemployment (whether in the same or a subsequent period of interruption of employment) unless before that day he has requalified for benefit or unless, in the case of a person over 65 years of age, he has qualifying contributions in respect of not less than 156 contribution weeks in the period between his entry into insurance and the day for which unemployment benefit is claimed.
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(2) Where a person entitled to unemployment benefit for 156 days has exhausted his right to unemployment benefit—
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(a) he shall requalify therefor when he has qualifying contributions in respect of 13 contribution weeks begun or ended since the last day for which he was entitled to that benefit, and
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(b) on his requalifying therefor, subsection (1) shall again apply to him, but, in a case where the period of interruption of employment in which he exhausted his right to that benefit continues after his requalification, as if the part before and the part after his requalification were distinct periods of interruption of employment.
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[1976, s. 11]
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(3) Subsection (1) shall, in respect of a person who is over the age of 18 years and is not a married woman (other than a married woman living apart from and unable to obtain any financial assistance from her husband or entitled to an increase of benefit for a child or husband), have effect as if “390 days” were substituted for “156 days”.
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(4) Where a person entitled to unemployment benefit for 390 days has exhausted his right to that benefit—
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(a) he shall requalify therefor when he has qualifying contributions in respect of 13 contribution weeks begun or ended since the 156th day for which he was entitled to that benefit, and
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(b) on his requalifying therefor, subsections (1) and (3) shall again apply to him, but, in a case where the period of interruption of employment in which he exhausted his right to benefit continues after his requalification, as if the part before and the part after the exhaustion were distinct periods of interruption of employment.
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(5) Where in the period of interruption of employment a person who is over the age of 18 years and is not a married woman (other than a married woman living apart from and unable to obtain any financial assistance from her husband or entitled to an increase of benefit for a child or husband) has exhausted his right to 312 days' unemployment benefit within the period of 78 days ending on 5th April, 1976, he shall be entitled to unemployment benefit in respect of each day, up to a maximum of 78 days, of unemployment occurring after that date up to the 394th day of unemployment in that period of interruption of employment.
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[1979, s. 22]
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(6) Subsection (1) shall, in respect of a married woman (other than a married woman living apart from and unable to obtain any financial assistance from her husband or entitled to an increase of benefit for a child or husband), have effect as if “312 days” were substituted for “156 days”.
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(7) Where a woman entitled to unemployment benefit for 312 days has exhausted her right to that benefit—
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(a) she shall requalify therefor when she has qualifying contributions in respect of 13 contribution weeks begun or ended since the 156th day for which she was entitled to that benefit, and
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(b) on her so requalifying, subsections (1) and (6) shall again apply to her but, in a case where the period of interruption of employment in which she exhausted her right to such benefit continues after her requalification, as if the part before and the part after the exhaustion were distinct periods of interruption of employment.
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(8) Where in a period of interruption of employment a woman referred to in subsection (6) has exhausted her right to 156 days' unemployment benefit within the period of 156 days ending on 31st March, 1979, she shall be entitled to such benefit in respect of each day, up to a maximum of 156 days, of unemployment after that date up to the 315th day of unemployment in that period of interruption of employment.
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[1952, s. 16]
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(9) Regulations may provide for treating a person for the purposes of this section as having been entitled to benefit for any day if he would have been so entitled but for any delay or failure on his part to make or prosecute a claim or give a notice, subject to the proviso that a person shall not be so treated where he shows that he did not intend, by failing to acquire or establish a right to benefit for that day, to avoid the necessity of requalifying for benefit under this section.
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