No. 40/1939:

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIODS) ORDER, 1939

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIODS) ORDER, 1939

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIODS) ORDER, 1939, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 15th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1939, PURSUANT TO SUB-SECTION (3) OF SECTION 4 AND SUB-SECTION (1) OF SECTION 7 of THE UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1933 .

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (3) of Section 4 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 , that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may be 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 sub-section (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 Minister under the said Act :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (3) of Section 4 and sub-section (1) of Section 7 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 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 for all purposes as the Unemployment Assistance (Employment Periods) Order, 1939.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 , applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The following regulations shall have effect for the purposes of sub-section (3) of Section 4 of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 , that is to say—

I. The period commencing on the 8th day of March, 1939, and ending on the 31st day of October, 1939, shall be an employment period in respect of the following particular class of persons, namely—

Any occupier of land entered as such in the valuation list within the meaning of the Valuation Acts—

(a) which is not situate within the boundary of any county or other borough or of any urban district or of any town having commissioners under the Towns Improvement Act, 1854, and

(b) of which the annual rateable value under the Valuation Acts or the aggregate of such annual rateable values exceeds four pounds.

II. For the purpose of these regulations, any 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.

By Order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

Dated this 15th day of February, 1939.

JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.