Insurance (Intermittent Unemployment) Act, 1942
Additional methods of proving fulfilment of statutory conditions, etc. |
43.—(1) Where supplementary benefit has been paid to an insured person in respect of any day or part thereof a certificate, in the prescribed form, signed by such insured person or the person who was the employer of such insured person on such day certifying any one or more of the following matters— | |
(a) that such insured person was intermittently unemployed on such day, | ||
(b) that the hours during which such insured person was intermittently unemployed on such day were working hours, | ||
(c) that such day was not a Sunday or a public holiday within the meaning of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), | ||
(d) that such day was not the first day of a spell of insurable employment with the person who was the employer of such insured person, | ||
shall, for the purposes of this Part of this Act, be sufficient evidence of the facts so certified, unless and until the contrary is shown to be the case. | ||
(2) Where supplementary benefit has been paid to an insured person a certificate, in the prescribed form, by such insured person that he is the rightful holder of a particular supplementary unemployment book or a certificate, in the prescribed form, by the person who was the employer of such person at the time such supplementary benefit was paid that he is satisfied that such insured person is the rightful holder of such book shall, for the purposes of this Part of this Act, be sufficient evidence of the identity of such insured person, unless and until the contrary is shown to be the case. | ||
(3) Where weekly contributions in respect of an insured person are paid by affixing supplementary insurance stamps to his supplementary unemployment book, and supplementary benefit has been paid to such insured person in any insurance year, the following provisions shall, for the purposes of the first statutory condition, have effect, that is to say:— | ||
(a) a certificate, in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars, by the person (in this sub-section referred to as the employer) who was the employer of such insured person at the time such supplementary benefit was paid that, prior to the week in which occurred the intermittent unemployment for which such supplementary benefit was paid, a specified number of weekly contributions had been paid for such person in respect of such insurance year shall be sufficient evidence of the facts so certified, unless and until the contrary is shown to be the case; | ||
(b) a certificate, in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars, by the employer that there was entered, in accordance with regulations made under Part III of this Act, on the current supplementary unemployment book of such insured person a statement that a specified number of weekly contributions had been paid for such insured person in respect of the immediately preceding insurance year shall, unless and until the contrary is shown to be the case, be sufficient evidence that there were paid the number of weekly contributions so certified to be so entered. | ||
(4) Where supplementary benefit has been paid to any insured person in respect of a particular day or part thereof, a certificate, in the prescribed form, by the person who was the employer of such person on that day, that the current unemployment book issued under the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920, of such insured person was in his possession on that day shall, for the purposes of the second statutory condition, be sufficient evidence of the facts so declared, unless and until the contrary is shown to be the case. |