No. 100/1947:

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1946 (COMMENCEMENT OF PART II) ORDER, 1947.

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1946 (COMMENCEMENT OF PART II) ORDER, 1947.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (2) of section 3 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1946 (No. 37 of 1946), as adapted by the Social Welfare (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 1) Order, 1947 (S. R. & O., No. 18 of 1947), that if, but only if, arrangements have been entered into between the Government and the Government of the United Kingdom whereby the Government of the United Kingdom undertake to meet the cost of paying to persons in the State benefit in respect of periods during which those persons fulfil the conditions set out in section 5 of that Act for the receipt of special benefit under the Act, the Minister for Social Welfare may by order declare that Part II of the Act shall come into operation :

AND WHEREAS the said arrangements have been entered into :

NOW, I, SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the power conferred on me by subsection (2) of section 3 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1946 , as adapted by the Social Welfare (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 1) Order, 1947, hereby order as follows :

1. This Order may be cited as the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1946 (Commencement of Part II) Order, 1947.

2. Part II of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1946 , shall come into operation on the 27th day of February, 1947.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 24th day of February, 1947.

(Signed) SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Social Welfare.