Unemployment Insurance Act 1925
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1925 c. 69 |
| Year | 1925 |
Unemployment Insurance Act, 1925
(15 & 16 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 69.
An Act to amend subsection (3) of section one and subsection (2) of section three of the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act, 1924, to amend the law with respect to the period on the expiration of which benefit under the Acts relating to unemployment insurance becomes payable and with respect to the rates of contribution under the said Acts, and to continue the saying contained in subsection (1) of section eleven of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1923.
[7th August 1925]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Amendment of s. 1 \(3) of Unemployment Insurance\(No. 2) Act, 1924.
1. Subsection (3) of section one of the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act, 1924(which gives a right to receive benefit to persons who otherwise would not be entitled thereto), shall have effect as if for the words ‘he shall nevertheless be entitled to receive benefit’ there were substituted the words ‘the Minister may, if, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, he considers it expedient in the public interest so to do, authorise that person to receive benefit.’
2 Amendment as to statutory conditions.
2. Subsection (2) of section three of the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act, 1924 (which provides that during the period between the commencement of that Act and the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, a person is to be entitled to receive benefit, if the Minister thinks fit so to direct, notwithstanding that the first statutory condition may not have been fulfilled in his case), shall have effect as though the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, were therein substituted for the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.
3 Amendment as to waiting period.
3. Paragraph 1 of Part I. of the First Schedule to the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act, 1924 (which provides that benefit shall be payable in respect of each week after the first three days of a continuous period of unemployment), shall from the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, have effect as if the words ‘the first week’ were therein substituted for the words ‘the first three days.’
4 Rates of contribution.
(1) The following provisions shall have effect with respect to the contributions payable under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1924, in respect of employed persons:—
(a ) As from and after the fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and thereafter during the remainder of the deficiency period as defined in section sixteen of the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act, 1921 , and during a further period thereafter ending on such date as the Minister may by order prescribe, not being a date later than the first day of the insurance year commencing next after the end of the aforesaid deficiency period (the aggregate of which two periods is in this section referred to as ‘the extended period’), the contributions payable as aforesaid by employed persons and their employers shall be at the respective rates set out in the First Schedule to this Act:
(b ) As from and after the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, until the expiration of the extended period, the contribution payable as aforesaid out of moneys provided by Parliament shall be a contribution of such an amount as may be determined by the Treasury to be approximately equivalent, having regard to the estimated proportions in which contributions are payable in respect of men, women, boys and girls, to the sum which would be produced by weekly contributions paid in respect of insured and exempt persons as respects the period beginning on the said fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and ending on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, or on the date of the expiration of the extended period, whichever date is the earlier, at the respective rates set out in Part I. of the Second Schedule to this Act, and, if the extended period does not expire on or before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, then, as respects the period beginning on the second day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and ending on the date of the expiration of the extended period, at the respective rates set out in Part II. of the Second Schedule to this Act:
(c ) If at the end of the first quarter of the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six or at the end of any subsequent quarter of any year the Minister, with the concurrence of the Treasury, declares that the average of the amounts of the advances made by the Treasury to the unemployment fund (in this section referred to as ‘advances’) outstanding on the last day of each week in the quarter together with the interest accrued up to the said last day in respect of advances exceeds the amount of the advances outstanding on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, together with interest accrued up to the said thirty-first day in respect of advances (which last-mentioned amount together with the accrued interest is hereinafter referred to as ‘the 1925 debt’), the rates of the contributions payable out of moneys provided by Parliament shall be deemed to have been increased in respect of that quarter, in the case of an employed person being a man by one penny, and in any other case by...
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