UNEMPLOYMENT ACT

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1930, Page 2

UNEMPLOYMENT ACT

EXEMPTIONS FROM LEVY.

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

WELLINGTON, December 12

The regulations to be gazetted shortly have now been made under the Unemployment Act, wholly exempting from the payment of the unemployment levy every person who having served in the war of 1914-19 as a member of any of His Majesty’s Naval, Military or Air Forces, raised in any part of the British Dominions, is for the time being in receipt of a pension granted by a Government of any jurisdiction in respect of his tota. disablement through such service, and exempting, to the extent specified, the following persons and classes of persons :

Every person who on the due date of sucli quarterly instalment is 65 years o'f age or over, and whose income from all sources during the three months immediately preceding such due date has not exceeded the average sum of £2 per week, and who has not obtained the consent of the Unemployment Board to his exclusion from the exemption hereby created; providing that any person seeking the consent of tim to such exclusion shall .make application ; in siting to the Board on that; behalf. setting out grounds' 'thereof; providing- also that the consent of the Board may. at any time be withdrawn after reasonable notice. (1) .. The person affected, provided that the person' affected may at any time, r by; notice in;writing ; to the Board, elect,, notwithstanding, any such consent to claim the benefit of the exemption hereby. created. (2) Every person who, on the due date of such quarterly instalment and for at least the whole of the month on the first day of which such instalment is due is through any physical or mental disability unable regularly to follow any occupation or calling for a livelihood, and whose income from all-sources during tlie three months immediately preceding such due date has noet exceeded the average sum of £2 a week. (3) Every person who is for the time being, a'member of a religious body -.whose rules forbid the possession by its members of any personal property,'- except clothing and similar personal effects.-;', ,-^v' (4) -.Every person who, on the due date of such quarterly instalment, and during the whole of the month immediately preceding such due date, has been registered as unemployed at an office of ' the Depnrtmnt of Labour and who has not received aiiy income. (5) Every person ' iii fespefct of whom the Uiieiiipioynifcht Bbiird iS Satisfied by resolution passed, pilot to the due date of Sucli quarterly instalment, that by reason of sickness bj poverty, it would produce undue hardship upon such person or his dependents to require such person to pay the said instalment.