UNEMPLOYMENT ACT

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1931, Page 3

UNEMPLOYMENT ACT

THE REGULATIONS

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WELLINGTON, January lb

Regulations for the payment of sustenance under the Unemployment Act were gazetted to-night. They contain the following- provisions:-'

Any person having knowledge regarding the eligibility lor sustenance of any person who is an applicant therefor shall, on the request of'the Unemployment Commissioner, an officer of the Labour Department, a 'Postmaster) or any other officer authbi'ised bv Lhe Unemployment Commissioner, answer any inquiries addressed him, and shall fill up and return any form in accordance" with the instructions -thereon, or accompanying it; which may he sent to him by such officer regarding siicb eligibility.

Any person engaging any worker shall require such worker to produce to him his coupon hook or sustenance card, and he shall not engage any worker who is not able to produce one of these documents. If the worker so produces' sustenance card the employer shall forthwith •enter' theron the date of the commencement of employment, and on the termination of employment'shall enter the date thereof, and shall sign the card in the place provided, and return' it to the-worker. This' 1 procedure shall lie followed on each occasion oil which an employer proposes to engage a worker, notwitnstanding that the same worker, may dip: engaged oir more ''than one occasion,. No-sustenance shall be paid any t'ei:.8011 until ..such person surrenders his coupon book to .the':-.sustenance officer or Postmaster :by whom payment is to

be made. On such surrender the grantee shall receive a sustenance card .on .which shall he entered the particulars of the allowance granted. The grantee shall retain his sustenance card until his sustenance allowance terminates, and on each occasion when sustenance allowance is paid to him., he shall produce, his sustenance card for the further payment to he recorded.thereon. The grantee shall, on the termination of such sustenance allowance, surrender his .sustenance card to the office)- from whom lie obtained it. and he shall thereupon have his.coupon hook .returned, him. Jf a susten-

ance card is lost or destroyed. the Sustenance Officer or Postmaster by whom the same was.'issued mav. on

proof to his satisfaction bv statutory declaration, or otherwise, of such loss or destruction, issue a fresh sustenance card in lieu thereof, or may. on return of the coupon hook, dispense with surrender of the sustenance card proved so to have been lost or destroved.

Any person eommittintr a breach of these regulations shall be liable to a fine not exceeding