Insurance (Intermittent Unemployment) Act, 1942

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Number 7 of 1942.


INSURANCE (INTERMITTENT UNEMPLOYMENT) ACT, 1942.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I.

Preliminary and General.

Section

1.

Short title and commencement.

2.

Interpretation generally.

3.

Employment in the building trade.

4.

Insurable employment.

5.

Excepted persons.

6.

Insured persons.

7.

Classes of insured persons.

8.

Inclement weather and intermittent unemployment.

9.

Insurance year.

10.

Decision of questions by Minister.

11.

Application of this Act to persons employed by the State.

12.

Regulations generally.

13.

Laying of regulations before Houses of the Oireachtas.

14.

Expenses of the Minister.

15.

Extension of meaning of “insurable employment” and “skilled worker”.

PART II.

Compulsory Insurance Against Intermittent Unemployment.

16.

Insured persons to be insured against intermittent unemployment.

PART III.

Contributions by Employers and Insured Persons.

17.

Sources of contributions.

18.

Liability of employers and insured persons for contributions.

19.

Employer's contribution irrecoverable from insured person.

20.

Recovery by employer of insured person's contribution.

21.

Persons to be treated as employers in certain cases.

22.

Date from which contributions are payable in certain cases.

23.

Repayment in certain cases of contributions.

24.

Power to make regulations as to payment of contributions by stamps, etc.

25.

Issue of supplementary insurance stamps.

26.

Provision for enabling Minister for Posts and Telegraphs to exercise powers in relation to supplementary insurance stamps.

27.

Priority of claims for contributions due by a bankrupt employer.

PART IV.

Supplementary Benefit.

28.

Right to supplementary benefit and periods in respect of which it is payable.

29.

Hourly rates of supplementary benefit.

30.

Statutory conditions for the receipt of supplementary benefit.

31.

Notification of intermittent unemployment.

32.

Payment of supplementary benefit by employers.

33.

Payment of supplementary benefit by the Minister.

34.

Repayment by the Minister of supplementary benefit paid by employers.

35.

Repayments not to be made to employers from the Supplementary Unemployment Fund in certain cases.

36.

Recovery of amounts improperly paid.

37.

Notification to employers and insured persons of amounts improperly paid in certain cases.

38.

Umpire and courts of referees.

39.

Insurance officers.

40.

Determination of questions as to the payment of supplementary benefit.

41.

Expenses of persons attending before courts of referees or umpire.

42.

General provisions as to procedure under Part IV.

43.

Additional methods of proving fulfilment of statutory conditions, etc.

44.

Restriction on payment of unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance.

PART V.

The Supplementary Unemployment Fund.

45.

Establishment of Supplementary Unemployment Fund.

46.

Provisions for securing solvency of Supplementary Unemployment Fund, etc.

47.

Advances out of the Central Fund.

PART VI.

Inspection.

48.

Inspectors.

49.

Powers of inspectors.

PART VII.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

50.

Provisions in relation to excepted persons whose employment is terminated.

51.

Offences.

52.

Prosecutions.

53.

Civil proceedings against employer.

54.

Proof of age and death.

55.

Exemption of documents from stamp duty.

56.

Power to remove difficulties.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Excluded Employments

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Rates of Weekly Contributions Payable by Insured Persons and Employers.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Hourly Rates of Supplementary Benefit.


Acts Referred to

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

No. 2 of 1936

Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933

No. 46 of 1933

Approved Investments Act, 1933

No. 34 of 1933

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Number 7 of 1942.


INSURANCE (INTERMITTENT UNEMPLOYMENT) ACT, 1942.


AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR MANUAL WORKERS EMPLOYED IN THE BUILDING TRADE INSURANCE AGAINST INTERMITTENT UNEMPLOYMENT RESULTING FROM STOPPAGES OF WORK DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXTENSION OF SUCH INSURANCE TO MANUAL WORKERS EMPLOYED IN OTHER TRADES, AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [19th May, 1942.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—