(1) Section 34 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (10) (inserted by section 14 of the Social Welfare Act, 1989) of the following subsection:
"(11) For the purposes of this section, any period in respect of which a person is disqualified for receiving unemployment benefit by virtue of subsection (3) of section 35 shall be treated as though it were a period in respect of which unemployment benefit was paid.".
(2) Section 35 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution in subsection (3) of "9 weeks" for "6 weeks".