Chapter IV.

Amendments of Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1948.

88. —(1) In this Chapter—

“the Acts” means the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1948;

“the Principal Act” means the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920;

“the Scheme” means The Insurance Industry Unemployment Insurance Scheme established under the Acts.

(2) This Chapter shall be construed as one with the Acts.

89. —(1) In the Second Schedule to the Principal Act, there shall be substituted, for paragraph 1 (inserted by section 26 of the Act of 1948), the following paragraph:—

“1. Unemployment benefit shall be payable in respect of each week of any continuous period of unemployment after the first week of unemployment and shall, in the case of recipients of any class set out in column (2) of the Table to this paragraph at any reference number, be at the weekly rate set out in column (3) of the said Table at that reference number.

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(2) There shall be paid into the Unemployment Fund out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas such amount as, in the opinion of the Minister and of the Minister for Finance, is necessary to meet the additional expenditure resulting from this section during the period beginning on the 3rd day of July, 1952, and ending on the 5th day of October, 1952, and the said amount shall be so paid in such manner and at such times as the Minister for Finance may determine.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall come into operation on the 3rd day of July, 1952.

90. —(1) Subsection (1) of section 1 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922, shall be construed and have effect—

(a) as if for the words “seven shillings and sixpence” (inserted by section 29 of the Act of 1948), where they occur, there were substituted the words “twelve shillings”, and

(b) as if for the words “two shillings and sixpence” (inserted by section 29 of the Act of 1948) there were substituted the words “seven shillings” and as if after the words “in respect of each such child” there were inserted the words “subject to a maximum of two children”.

(2) Paragraph 4 of the Second Schedule to the Scheme shall be construed and have effect—

(a) as if for the words “seven shillings and sixpence” (inserted by section 29 of the Act of 1948), where they occur, there were substituted the words “twelve shillings”, and

(b) as if for the words “two shillings and sixpence” (inserted by section 29 of the Act of 1948) there were substituted the words “seven shillings” and as if after the words “in respect of each such child” there were inserted the words “subject to a maximum of two children”.

(3) There shall be paid into the Unemployment Fund out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas such amount as, in the opinion of the Minister and of the Minister for Finance, is necessary to meet the additional expenditure resulting from subsection (1) of this section during the period beginning on the 3rd day of July, 1952, and ending on the 5th day of October, 1952, and the said amount shall be so paid in such manner and at such times as the Minister for Finance may determine.

(4) Subsections (1), (2) and (3) of this section shall come into operation on the 3rd day of July, 1952.

91. —(1) The contributions payable under the Acts in respect of employed persons by those persons and by their employers respectively shall, in lieu of the rates fixed by subsection (1) of section 28 of the Act of 1948, be at the respective rates set out in columns (3) and (4) of the Table to this subsection:—

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Weekly rates of contributions payable by employed persons and employers.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the 6th day of October, 1952.

92. —Section 3 of the Principal Act and paragraph (b) of Part II of the First Schedule thereto, so far as that paragraph relates to male persons, shall cease to have effect as on and from the 6th day of October, 1952.