SUSTENANCE CARDS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 January 1931, Page 5

SUSTENANCE CARDS

~—i? — APPLICATIONS FOR FOOD. REGULATIONS GAZETTED ;By Telegraph—Press Association ) W ELLINGTON, Jan. 15. 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 for 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 authorised by the Unemployment Commissioner,'answer any inquiries addressed to him and shall fill up and return any form in accordance with the instructions thereon or accompanying it which may be sent to him by such officer. Regarding such eligibility any person engaging any worker shall require him to produce his coupon book or sustenance card, and he shall not engage any worker who is not able to produce one of these documents. If the worker produces a sustenance card the employer shall enter thereon the date' of the commencement of his empiloyment, and on the termination of the employment shall enter the date thereof and shall sign the card in place provided and return it to the worker. This procedure shall be followed on i each occasion on which the employer proposes to engage a worker, notwithstanding that tliet same worker may be engage on more than one occasion. No sustenance shall be paid any person until such person surrenders his coupon or book to the sustenance officer or postmaster by whom the payment is to he made. On such surrender the grantee shall receive a, sustenance card on which shall be entered particulars of the allowance granted. The grantee shall, retain his sustenance card until his sustenance allowance terminates, and on each occasion when a sustenance allowance is paid to him he shall produce the sustenance card for a further payment to be recorded thereon. The grantee shall on the termination of such sustenance allowance surrender his sustenance card to the officer from whom he obtained it and he shall thereupon have his coupon book returned to him. If the sustenance card is lost or destroyed the sustenance officer or postmaster by whom it was issued may on proof to his satisfaction, by statutory declaration or otherwise, of such loss or destruction issue a fresh sustenance card, or may on the return of the coupon hook dispense with the surrender of the sustenance card proved so to have been lost or destroyed. Any person committing a breach of these regulations shall he liable to a fine not exceeding £5.