S.I. No. 142/1971:

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIOD) (NO. 2) ORDER, 1971

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIOD) (NO. 2) ORDER, 1971

I, JOSEPH BRENNAN, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 4 (3) and 7 (1) of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 (No. 46 of 1933), and the Social Welfare (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 1) Order, 1947 (S.R. & O., No. 18 of 1947), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Unemployment Assistance (Employment Period) (No. 2) Order, 1971.

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

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

I. The period commencing on the 14th day of April, 1971, and ending on the 16th day of November, 1971, shall be an employment period in respect of the following class of persons, namely, every man--

(a) who has no dependant, and

(b) 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 any man who has no dependant and who resides in a house owned by the corporation of a county or other borough or the council of an urban district or the commissioners of a town, situate outside such county or other borough, urban district or town.

III. For the purposes of these regulations, "dependant" means a dependant within the meaning of section 4 of the Unemployment Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1935 (No. 38 of 1935), as amended by section 98 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), and by section 25 of the Social Welfare Act, 1970 (No. 12 of 1970).

4. The Unemployment Assistance (Employment Period) Order, 1971 ( S.I. No. 128 of 1971 ), is hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 8th day of April, 1971.

JOSEPH BRENNAN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to exclude from unemployment assistance during the period from 14 April, 1971 to 16 November, 1971, men who have no dependants and who are resident in non-municipal towns and rural areas with the exception of those resident in houses owned by the local authority of a town having local government. The provisions of the Order are in substitution for those of the Unemployment Assistance (Employment Period) Order, 1971 (No. 128 of 1971), which the present Order revokes.