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"on or after 1 July 1987".
Commencement: 1 July 1987

(2) Section 126 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after paragraph (1) (c) the following paragraph:
      "(ca) a person refuses or fails, without sufficient reason, to comply with a requirement made of the person under section 170;".
Commencement: 1 September 1987

44. Section 127 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is substituted:

Education leavers
"127. (1) Subject to subsections (2), (3) and (6), where a person (not being a person who is receiving a prescribed pension) who is undertaking a course of education of at least 6 month's duration on a full time basis ceases to undertake that course on or after 1 September 1987 and lodges a claim for an unemployment benefit within 6 months after so ceasing, an unemployment benefit is not payable to the person in respect of any period of unemployment during:
    (a) if the person is an unmarried person who is under the age of 21 years and has no dependants and is not a person to whom paragraph (b) or (c) applies—the period of 13 weeks commencing on the day (in this subsection called the 'lodgment day') on which the person lodged that claim;
    (b) if the person ceases to be a person to whom paragraph (a) applies before the end of 6 weeks after the lodgment day—the period of 6 weeks commencing on the lodgment day;
    (c) if the person ceases to be a person to whom paragraph (a) applies after the end of 6 weeks after the lodgment day but before the end of 13 weeks after that day—the period commencing on the lodgment day and ending on the day on which the person so ceases; or
    (d) in any other case—the period of 6 weeks after the lodgment day.
"(2) Where a person to whom paragraph (1) (a) applies had, at any time after ceasing to undertake the course of education, been employed on a full time basis, the period referred to in that paragraph shall be reduced by so much of that period of employment as does not exceed 13 weeks.

"(3) Where a person to whom paragraph (1) (b) or (d) applies had, at any time, been employed on a full time basis, the period referred to in that paragraph shall be reduced by so much of that period of employment as does not exceed 6 weeks.
"(4) For the purposes of subsection (1), where a person is, under another section of this Act, deemed to have lodged a claim for an unemployment benefit on a day before the day on which the person actually lodged the claim, that earlier day shall be