27 and 28. Mr. TYSON WILSONasked (1) whether a workman in a insured trade who becomes unemployed and registers at a Labour Exchange six successive days, and then secures employment for six days, then again registers as unemployed for six days, is entitled to unemployed benefit for the second six days that he was out of employment; and (2) whether a workman in an insured trade who becomes unemployed and registers at a Labour Exchange seven successive days, and then secures employment and works seven days, then again registers as unemployed for three days, is entitled to unemployed benefit for the last three days he was unemployed?
Mr. ROBERTSONThe second part of Section 107 (1), paragraph 3, of the National Insurance Act provides that "Two periods of unemployment of not less than one week each separated by an interval of not more than six weeks shall be treated as a continuous period of unemployment." In the first instance, therefore, given by my hon. Friend, the workman would be entitled to benefit in respect of the second six days of unemployment. In the second instance he would not be entitled to benefit in respect of the 1354 second period of three days if he then ceased to be unemployed. If, however, his second period of unemployment lasted for as much as six days, he would be entitled to benefit for the whole of such second period.