No. 72/1943:

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIOD) ORDER, 1943.

UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (EMPLOYMENT PERIOD) ORDER, 1943.

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, 1943.

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 10th day of March, 1943, and ending on the 26th day of October, 1943, shall be an employment period in respect of the following class of persons, namely, every person—

(a) whose place of residence is not situate within any county or other borough, urban district or town, and

(b) who is the occupier of land of which the rateable valuation or the aggregate rateable valuations exceeds or exceed £2, and

(c) who is not enrolled in the Special Register of Agricultural and Turf Workers kept under the Emergency Powers (No. 243) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O. No. 503 of 1942).

ii. 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 1st day of March, 1943.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.