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Unemployment assistance and pre-retirement allowance — linking provisions.
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6.—(1) Section 120(5) (as amended by section 30 of the Act of 1997) of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) in paragraph (g), by deleting “or”, and
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(b) by substituting the following for paragraph (h):
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“(h) participation in, employment under or attendance at a prescribed scheme or course, or
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(i) receipt of or entitlement to pre-retirement allowance,”.
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(2) Section 127 (inserted by section 18 of the Act of 1998) of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after subsection (4):
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“(5) For the purposes of subsection (6), any two periods of retirement not separated by more than 52 weeks shall be treated as one continuous period of retirement.
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(6) Subsection (1)(c) shall not apply in the case of a claim to pre-retirement allowance made by a person in respect of a period of retirement which is a continuous period of retirement as construed in accordance with subsection (5).”.
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(3) This section comes into operation on 27 March 2002.
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