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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1931.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1931.

Unemployment Sustenance Regulations, 1931.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 13th day of January, 1931.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE E. A. RANSOM, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the Unemployment Act, 1930, and all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth in respect to sustenance allowances under section twenty of the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Unemployment Sustenance Regulations, 1931.

2. In these regulations, unless inconsistent with the context,—

“ The said Act ” means the Unemployment Act, 1930 :

“ Coupon-book ” means the book of coupons issued pursuant to the Unemployment Levy Regulations, 1930 :

“ Grantee ” means any person to whom a sustenance allowance has been granted under section 20 of the said Act :

“ Sustenance Officer ” means any person appointed to supervise the payment of sustenance - allowance under section 20 of the said Act :

“ Sustenance-card ” means the document referred to in Regulation 5 hereof :

“ Worker ” means any person registered or liable to be registered under the said Act and employed or seeking to be employed to perform labour for hire.

3. Any person having knowledge regarding the eligibility for sustenance of any person who is an applicant therefor shall, on request by the Unemployment Commissioner, an officer of the Labour Department, a Postmaster, or any other officer authorized by the Unemployment Commissioner, answer any inquiries addressed to him and shall fill up and return any form in accordance with instructions thereon or accompanying it which may be sent to him by such officer regarding such eligibility.

4. (1) Any person engaging any worker shall require such worker to produce to him his coupon-book or a sustenance-card, and he shall not engage any worker who is not able to produce one of these documents.

(2) If the worker so produces a sustenance-card the employer shall forthwith enter thereon the date of commencement of the employment and on termination of the employment shall enter the date thereof, and shall sign the card in the place provided and return it to the worker.

(3) This procedure shall be followed on each occasion on which the employer proposes to engage a worker, notwithstanding that the same worker may be engaged on more than one occasion.

5. (1) No sustenance shall be paid to any person until such person surrenders his coupon-book to the Sustenance Officer or Postmaster by whom payment is to be made.

(2) On such surrender the grantee shall receive a sustenance-card on which shall be entered particulars of the allowance granted.

(3) The grantee shall retain his sustenance-card until his sustenance-allowance terminates, and on each occasion when sustenance-allowance is paid to him he shall produce his sustenance-card for the further payment to be recorded thereon.

(4) The grantee shall on the termination of such sustenance-allowance surrender his sustenance-card to the officer from whom he obtained it, and he shall thereupon have his coupon-book returned to him.

(5) If a sustenance-card is lost or destroyed the Sustenance Officer or Postmaster by whom the same was issued may, on proof to his satisfaction by statutory declaration or otherwise of such loss or destruction, issue a fresh sustenance-card in lieu thereof, or may on the return of a coupon-book dispense with the surrender of the sustenance-card proved so to have been lost or destroyed.

6. Any person committing a breach of these regulations shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £5.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: W. A. G. SKINNER, Government Printer, Wellington.

Price 6d.]