§ (1) If the repeated failure of any insured workman to obtain or retain employment appears to the insurance officer to be wholly or partly due to defects in skill or knowledge, the insurance officer may, if he thinks fit, for the purpose of testing the skill or knowledge of the workman, offer to arrange for the attendance of the workman at a suitable institution for technical instruction, and may, out of the unemployment fund, pay all or any of the expenses incidental to such attendance.
§ If the workman fails or refuses either to avail himself of the offer, or to produce satisfactory evidence of his competence, or if the insurance officer reports that the skill or knowledge of the workman is defective, and that there is no reasonable prospect of such defects being remedied, such facts shall be taken into consideration in determining what is suitable employment for the workman.
§ If in any case the person in charge of the institution reports that the skill or knowledge of the workman is defective, but that there is a reasanable prospect of the 936 defects being remedied by technical instruction, the insurance officer may, subject to any directions given by the Board of Trade, pay out of the unemployment fund all or any of the expenses incidental to the provision of the instruction, if he is of opinion that the charge on the unemployment fund in respect of the workman is likely to be decreased by the provision of the instruction.
§ (2) The regulations of the Board of Trade made under this Part of this Act shall provide for the return to a workman who is not a workman in an insured trade and to his employer of any contributions paid by them respectively under the belief that the workman was a workman in an insured trade.
§ (3) Where under regulations made by the Board of Trade any sum has been paid out of the unemployment fund by way of reward for the return of a book or card which has been lost, the person responsible for the custody of the book or card at the time of its loss shall be liable to repay the sum so paid, not exceeding one shilling in respect of any one occasion.
§ Amendments made: Leave out, in Subsection (1), the words "the insurance officer reports," and insert instead thereof the words "as a result of the test the insurance officer considers."
§ Leave out, in Sub-section (1), the words "the person in charge of the institution reports," and insert instead thereof the words "as a result of the test the insurance officer considers."
§ At end of Sub-section (2), insert the words "subject, in the case of the workmen's contributions, to the deduction of any amount received by him in respect of unemployment benefit under a similar belief."—[Mr. Buxton.]