Social Welfare Act, 1952

Amendment of paragraph 1 of Second Schedule to Principal Act.

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.

TABLE.

Ref. No.

Class of recipient.

Weekly rate of benefit.

(1)

(2)

(3)

s.

d.

1

Person aged eighteen years or over who is a man, single woman or widow, married woman living apart from and unable to obtain any financial assistance from her husband or married woman entitled by virtue of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922, to an increase for a child or each of two children or for a husband

24

0

2

Any other married woman or any person under the age of eighteen

18

0

(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.