S.I. No. 52/1965:

SOCIAL WELFARE (DISABILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND MARRIAGE BENEFIT) (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1965.

SOCIAL WELFARE (DISABILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND MARRIAGE BENEFIT) (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1965.

I, CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 and 15 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), hereby make the following Regulations:--

1.--(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1965.

(2) These Regulations shall be included in the expression " the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) Regulations, 1953 to 1965".

2. In these Regulations " the Principal Regulations " mean the Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage Benefit) Regulations, 1953 ( S.I. No. 7 of 1953 ).

3. Article 7 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the deletion of paragraph (b) and the substitution therefor of the following--

"(b) a day shall not be treated as a day of unemployment if an insured person--

(i) fails to prove to the satisfaction of the Minister in respect of that day that he is unemployed and not incapable of work and is available for employment, or

(ii) is on that day following any occupation from which he derives any remuneration or profit unless such occupation could ordinarily have been followed by him in addition to his usual employment and outside the ordinary working hours of that employment and either--

(A) the remuneration or profit therefrom for such day does not exceed ten shillings, or, where the remuneration or profit is in respect of a period longer than a day, such remuneration or profit does not on the daily average exceed that amount, or

(B) not less than seventy-eight employment contributions have been paid in respect of him in respect of either the period of three years immediately preceding that day or in respect of the last three complete contribution years immediately preceding that day.

(iii) where the provisions at (B) of sub-paragraph (ii) of this paragraph are satisfied as respects any day they shall continue to be regarded as satisfied in respect of any subsequent day which is in the same period of interruption of employment."

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 22nd day of March, 1965.

CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The first amending Regulations of 1965 ( S.I. No. 18 of 1965 ) provided, inter alia, for raising from 6/8d. to 10/- the daily amount of remuneration or profit which may be derived from a subsidiary occupation without affecting title to unemployment benefit for such a day. The only change effected by these further Regulations is to waive the limit of 10/- per day in the case of persons who are habitual wage-earners as evidenced by their record of employment contributions paid over a recent three-year period.