HC Deb 24 February 1921 vol 138 c1267

  1. (1) Paragraph 2 of the Second Schedule to the principal Act (which provides that no person shall receive unemployment benefit for a period of more than fifteen weeks or such other period as may be prescribed) shall as from the second day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, have effect as though twenty-six weeks were therein substituted for fifteen weeks.
  2. (2) Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act or in this Act, no person shall he entitled to receive unemployment benefit in either of the special periods for a greater period in the aggregate than sixteen weeks.

Amendment made: In Sub-section (1), leave out the words "as from the second day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-two."—[Dr. Macnamara.]

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.