S.I. No. 82/1993 -- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Social Insurance Provisions) Regulations, 1993.
S.I. No. 82/1993: SOCIAL WELFARE (MISCELLANEOUS SOCIAL INSURANCE PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS, 1993. |
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SOCIAL WELFARE (MISCELLANEOUS SOCIAL INSURANCE PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS, 1993. |
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The Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 (No. of 1981 ) and section 29 of that Act (as amended by section 28 of the Social Welfare Act, 1992 ) hereby makes the following Regulations:-- |
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Citation. | ||
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Social Insurance Provisions) Regulations, 1993. |
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Substantial loss of employment. | ||
2. The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Social Insurance Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations, 1992 ( S.I. No. 448 of 1992 ) are hereby amended by the substitution for article 6 of the following article: |
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"6. A claimant shall be regarded, for the purposes of subsection (1) (d) of section 29 of the Principal Act, as having sustained a substantial loss of employment in any period of six consecutive days as the Minister may determine, where he has lost one day of insurable employment: |
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Provided that the claimant's reckonable earnings are reduced as a consequence of the loss of employment.". |
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GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this 23rd |
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day of March, 1993. |
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MICHAEL WOODS, |
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Minister Social Welfare. |
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The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing Regulations. |
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GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 23rd |
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day of March, 1993. |
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BERTIE AHERN, |
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Minister for Finance. |
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EXPLANATORY NOTE. |
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One of the qualifying conditions for entitlement to Unemployment Benefit is that the claimant must have sustained a substantial loss of employment. These Regulations amend the circumstances in which a claimant will be regarded as satisfying this condition by providing that a person who has lost at least one day of insurable employment in any week will be regarded as having suffered a substantial loss of employment. |
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