Paragraph 7

The following subsection shall be added at the end of section 18 of that Act (duration of unemployment benefit)—

“(4)

Regulations may provide for treating a person for the purposes of this section as having been entitled to unemployment benefit for any day if he would have been entitled to it but for—

(a)

failure to make a claim; or

(b)

failure to make a claim within the prescribed time;

but a person is not to be so treated where he shows that he did not intend, by so failing, to avoid the necessity of requalifying for benefit.”.