No. 64/1941:

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIOD) ORDER, 1941

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIOD) ORDER, 1941

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIOD) ORDER, 1941, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 22ND DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1941, PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION (3) OF SECTION 4 AND SUBSECTION (1) OF SECTION 7 of THE UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1933 (No. 46 OF 1933).

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (3) of section 4 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 (No. 46 of 1933), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may by regulations made by him under that Act 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 that Act :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of section 7 of the said Act that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may by order make regulations prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in the said Act as prescribed or to be prescribed or any matter or thing which is expressly authorised by the said Act to be prescribed by regulations made by the said Minister under the said Act :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (3) of section 4 and subsection (1) of section 7 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 (No. 46 of 1933), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows, that is to say :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Unemployment Assistance (Employment Period) Order, 1941.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The following regulations shall have effect for the purposes of subsection (3) of section 4 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 (No. 46 of 1933), that is to say :—

I. The period commencing on the 5th day of March, 1941, and ending on the 28th day of October, 1941, shall be an employment period in respect of the following class of persons, namely, every person whose place of residence is not situate within any county or other borough, urban district or town.

II. Regulation I of these Regulations shall not apply to—

(a) any married man or widower—

(i) who has a dependant, and

(ii) whose place of residence is situate within any district electoral division set out in the Schedule to the Unemployment Assistance (Third Employment Period) Order, 1940 ( S. R. & O. No. 172 of 1940 ), and

(iii) who either—

is not the occupier of any land, or

is the occupier of land, of which the rateable valuation or the aggregate rateable valuations does or do not exceed £2 ; or

(b) any person discharged, during the period commencing on the 5th day of March, 1941, and ending on the 28th day of October, 1941, from the Defence Forces, otherwise than for misconduct ; or

(c) a person—

(i) who resides in a house, owned by the council of any county or other borough, or urban district or by the commissioners of a town, situate outside such county or other borough, urban district or town, and

(ii) who, immediately before taking up residence in such house, resided in premises situate in such county or other borough, urban district or town.

III. For the purposes of these Regulations—

(a) the word " land " means land entered as such in the valuation list, within the meaning of the Valuation Acts ;

(b) land let for depasturage for a period of less than one year shall be deemed to be occupied by the person who was the occupier thereof immediately before such letting.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 22nd day of February, 1941.

(Signed) R. C. FERGUSON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.