PAYMENT OF SUSTENANCE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1931, Page 7

PAYMENT OF SUSTENANCE

THE REGULATIONS GAZETTED. CONTROL OF APPLICATIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. 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 tvorker who is not able to produce one of these documents./ If the worker produces a sustenance card the employer shall enter theereon the date of the commencement of his employment, 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 each occasion on which the employer proposes to engage a worker, notwithstanding that the same worker may be engaged on more than one occasion. No sustenance shall be paid \ any person until such person surrenders his coupon book to the sustenance officer or postmaster by whom the payment is to be 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 ho 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-'w destruction issue a fresh sustenance card, or may oii the return of the coupon book 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 be liable to a fine not exceeding £5.