EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1950 - SECT 2 Employment exchanges and employment services.

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EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1950 - SECT 2

Employment exchanges and employment services.

2.(1) The Ministry may establish and maintain, in such places as it thinks
fit, employment exchanges, that is to say, offices or places for the
collection and furnishing of information, either by the keeping of registers
or otherwise, respecting persons who seek to engage employees and persons who
seek employment.

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of the last foregoing sub-section, the
Ministry may make such arrangements as it considers expedient, whether by
means of employment exchanges or otherwise, for the collection and furnishing
of information, and the provision of advice, guidance or other services for
persons of any class (whether employed or not) for any of the purposes
mentioned in section one of this Act.

(3) Subject to the approval of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry may
defray or contribute towards expenditure incurred by any local authority under
any enactment other than this Act in the provision of any such services as are
mentioned in the last foregoing sub-section, and may make such contributions
as it may, with the consent of the Ministry of Finance, determine towards the
funds of any voluntary association having among its objects the provision of
any such services.

(4) The Ministry may make regulations with respect to the management of
employment exchanges provided by it under this section, and otherwise with
respect to the exercise of its functions thereunder.

(5) No person shall be disqualified or otherwise prejudiced in respect of
facilities provided at any employment exchange as aforesaid on account of his
refusal to accept employment found for him through such an exchange if the
ground of his refusal is that a trade dispute which affects his trade exists,
or that the wages offered are lower than those current in the trade in the
district where the employment is found.

(6) Subject to the approval of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry may, in
such cases and subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, make payments by
way of grant or loan to persons travelling to or attending at any employment
exchange or other place for the purpose of availing themselves of services
provided under this section, and may pay to medical practitioners, in respect
of the examination of persons availing themselves of such services, such fees
as it may determine.

(7) If any person, for the purpose of obtaining employment or procuring
employees, knowingly or recklessly makes any false statement or false
representation to an officer of any employment exchange provided by the
Ministry under this section, or to any person acting for or for the purposes
of any such exchange, he shall (without prejudice to his liability under any
other enactment) be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a
fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(8) The Ministry shall, so far as practicable, make arrangements with
employers for the notification by them to employment exchanges of situations
in their employment which are or are about to become vacant.

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EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1950 - SECT 2