HC Deb 01 December 1911 vol 32 cc941-2

  1. (1) The Board of Trade may, on the application of any association of workmen the rules of which provide for payments to its members, being workmen in an insured trade, or any class thereof, whilst unemployed, make an arrangement with such association that, in lieu of paying unemployment benefit under this Part of this Act to workmen who prove that they are members of the association, there shall be repaid periodically to the association out of the unemployment fund such sum as appears to be, as nearly as may be, equivalent to the aggregate amount which such workmen would have received during that period by way of unemployment benefit under this Part of this Act if no such arrangement had been made, but in no case exceeding three-fourths of the amount of the payments made during that period by the association to such workmen as aforesaid whilst unemployed.
  2. (2) The council or other governing body of any association of workmen which has made such an arrangement as aforesaid shall be entitled to treat the contributions due from any of its members to the unemployment fund under this Part of this Act, or any part thereof, as if such contributions formed part of the subscriptions payable by those members to the association, and, notwithstanding anything in the rules of the association to the contrary, may reduce the rates of subscription of those members accordingly.
  3. (3) For the purpose of determining whether a workman has exhausted his right to unemployment benefit under this Part of this Act, the amount of any sum which, but for this Section, would have been paid to him by way of unemployment benefit shall be deemed to have been so paid.
  4. (4) The Board of Trade may make regulations for giving effect to this Section, and for referring to the umpire any question which may arise under this Section.

Amendments made: In Sub-section (4), after the word "umpire" add the words "appointed under this Part of the Act."

At end of Clause add, (5) The fact that persons other than workmen can be members of an association shall not prevent the association being treated as an association of workmen for the purposes of this Section, if the association is substantially an association of workmen.—[Mr. Buxton.]