No. 15/1924:

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE REPAYMENT AND RETURN OF CONTRIBUTIONS (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1924.

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE REPAYMENT AND RETURN OF CONTRIBUTIONS (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1924.

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

REPAYMENT AND RETURN OF CONTRIBUTIONS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1924.

The Unemployment Insurance (Repayment and Return of Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations, dated 9th February, 1924, made by the Minister for Industry and Commerce under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920-23.

WHEREAS the Minister of Labour, by virtue of the powers conferred on him by Section 28 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, has made the Unemployment Insurance (Repayment and Return of Contributions) Regulations, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the " Principal Regulations.")

AND WHEREAS the functions of the Ministry of Labour have been duly transferred to and vested in the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Saorstát Éireann.

AND WHEREAS it is desirable to amend the said Regulations.

NOW THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise and by virtue of the powers conferred on him by the said Section 28 and Section 35 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations for amending the Principal Regulations :—

1. Regulation 5 of the Unemployment Insurance (Repayment and Return of Contributions) Regulations, 1920, shall cease to have effect, and the following provision shall have effect in lieu thereof :—

" (5) Application for the return of any contribution paid in respect of any person under the erroneous belief that the contributions were payable in respect of him shall be made within three years from the date on which that contribution was paid and shall be made in such form as the Minister may direct."

2. Where, before the coming into force of these Regulations, application has been made under the Principal Regulations for the return of any contributions so paid as aforesaid, any subsequent application for the return of those contributions made on or before the 30th day of April, 1924, in such form as the Ministry may direct, or may in any particular case accept, shall be deemed to have been made on the date of the commencement of these Regulations.

3. Where by these Regulations any Regulations or words are directed to be substituted for any other Regulations or words in the Principal Regulations, copies of the Principal Regulations printed under the authority of the Office of Stationery after these Regulations come into force, may be printed with the Regulations or words substituted as these Regulations require, and with the Regulations and paragraphs thereafter numbered in accordance with such direction ; and the Principal Regulations shall be construed as if they had at the time at which these Regulations come into force been made with such additions or omissions.

4. These Regulations may be cited as the Unemployment Insurance (Repayment and Return of Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations, 1924, and shall come into force on the date hereof.

Signed by Order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 9th day of February, 1924.

GORDON CAMPBELL,

Secretary to the Minister for Industry and

Commerce.

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