obtained for the purpose from a postmaster, and shall
forthwith deliver the emergency card to the
contributor duly stamped.

(3) The Commissioners may, if they think fit, and subject to such terms and conditions as they may impose, approve any arrangement whereby stamps are affixed at times, or contributions paid in a manner, other than those prescribed, so, however, that no such arranagement shall authorise the payment of any contribution at a date later than that upon which the wages or other pecuniary remuneration for the period in respect of which the contribution is payable are paid, unless such deposit of money by way of security is made as the Commissioners shall approve.

&c.

11.—(1) An employer shall immediately after affixing any Cancellation stamp to a card cancel the stamp by writing in ink or stamping of stamps, with a metallic die with black indelible ink or composition across the face of the stamp the date upon which it is affixed, and in the case of an emergency card shall in addition write across the face of the stamp the name of the contributor.

(2) An employer may, if he thinks fit, inscribe upon the card of any employed contributor employed by him, but only in such manner as to be easily erased or removed, the number of that contributor upon the pay-list or in the books of the employer.

(3) Save as otherwise expressly provided in these Regulations and in the Regulations made under Section 108 of the Act, or as specially authorised by the Commissioners in any particular case, no writing or other mark shall be made at any time upon the card or stamp until after the surrender of the card to the Society or the Commissioners.

12.-(1) Upon making any claim for benefit an employed con- Production tributor shall, if so required, produce his card to the Society of and

which he is a member, or, in the case of a deposit contributor, deposit contributor, surrender of

to the Insurance Committee or to the Commissioners.

(2) I'very employed contributor who is a member of a Society shall surrender his card to his Society, or, if he is not a member of a Society, shall forward it to the Commissioners, at the times following, that is to say:

(i.) if he is a member of a Society,
(a) upon being transferred from one Society to another, in
which case he shall surrender his card to the Society
to which he is transferred, and that Society shall
transmit the card to the Society from which he is
transferred; and

(b) upon otherwise ceasing to be a member of a Society;

ii.) whether he is or is not a member of a Society,

(a) upon the card becoming defaced so as to be useless
for the purpose for which it was intended;

(b) within fourteen days after the expiration of the period
of currency of the card; and

(c) upon becoming a voluntary contributor.

cards to Society or Commis

sioners.

Special

(3) Every employed contributor shall, if required so to do by his Society or by the Commissioners, on or before surrendering a card in pursuance of these Regulations sign the card in the place indicated for the purpose on the card.

13. (1) The time within which, under sub-section (2) of provisions as Section 13 of the Act of 1918, an employed contributor, being to payment of contribua member of a Society, shall be entitled to pay contributions in tions by respect of a period during which he was unemployed owing to employed incapacity for work due to some specific disease or bodily or contributors. mental disablement or inability to obtain employment, shall be the time to the end of the period of grace next after the contribution year in which the unemployment occurred, and the time in respect of which the contributions may be paid shall be such time as would, together with the weeks in respect of which contributions have been paid since the date of the contributor's entry into insurance, make up a period not exceeding 104 weeks. Expressions in this paragraph have the meanings assigned to them in the Regulations relating to the benefits of persons in arrears made under the Act of 1918 and for the time being in force.

Provisions

as to ariears cards and payment of arrears, etc.

Cancellation of stamps affixed by

contributors,

etc.

(2) Subject to the provisions of the immediately succeeding Article, an insured person, not being a voluntary contributor, shall not affix any stamp to his card in respect of any period of unemployment except in accordance with sub-section (2) of Section 13 of the Act of 1918.

14. (1) Any insured person, being a member of a Society, who desires to pay any arrears in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations relating to the benefits of persons in arrears made under the Act of 1918 and for the time being in force, and who has not received an arrears card from his Society, may apply to the Society for an arrears card, and the Society shall inscribe thereon such particulars as may from time to time be required by the Commissioners, and shall issue to him a card so inscribed.

(2) The insured person may affix to the arrears card so issued stamps in payment of any arrears which he is entitled to pay.

(3) Arrears shall be deemed to have been paid at the time of the surrender of the arrears card bearing the appropriate stamps. to the Society of which the contributor paying arrears is a member, and the Society shall, upon the surrender of an arrears card, forthwith inscribe upon it the date of its receipt.

15. (1) Every insured person himself affixing a stamp to a card shall immediately cancel it by writing the date in ink across the face of the stamp:

Provided that where the person so affixing a stamp is unable legibly to write the date across the face of the stamp he may instead of himself cancelling the stamp deliver his card to a postmaster for the purpose of the stamp being cancelled by the postmaster with the official date stamp.

(2) No person shall affix to a card a stamp which has been cancelled or defaced.

16. This Part of these Regulations shall apply to an exempt Exempt person as it applies to an insured person who is not a member persons. of a Society, subject to the following modifications:

(a) An employer who affixes a stamp to an emergency card

in respect of an exempt person shall inscribe on the
card, in addition to the name of the exempt person,
the number of the certificate of exemption held by the
exempt person;

(b) the proper card for an exempt person shall in all cases
be issued by, and returned to, the Commissioners;
(c) an exempt person shall surrender his card to the Commis-
sioners on ceasing to be an exempt person;

(d) the Commissioners shall issue to every exempt person an
exemption book in the form set out in the First
Schedule to these Regulations, or in such form sub-
stantially to the like effect as the Commissioners may
determine, and the exempt person shall upon receipt
thereof produce it to his employer, and shall also
produce it to his employer at the time of entering any
new employment, and at such other times as the
employer may reasonably require;

(e) upon the expiration or avoidance of a certificate, or at
any time when he wishes to surrender the certificate,
an exempt person shall return the exemption book to
the Commissioners with a statement, in such form as
they may direct, of the circumstances in which the
certificate is surrendered.

PART III.

VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTORS.

17.—(1) The provisions of Part II. of these Regulations shall Voluntary apply to voluntary contributors, subject to the following modi- Contribufications:

(a) Any person entitled and desiring to become a voluntary contributor shall, if he is a member of a Society, apply to the Society or, if he is not a member of a Society, to the Commissioners, and the Society or Commissioners, as the case may require, shall forthwith issue to him a proper card;

(b) any Society so issuing a card shall inscribe upon it the name and address of the voluntary contributor to whom it is issued and such further particulars as the Commissioners may from time to time require;

(c) the duties imposed upon the employer of an employed contributor with respect to the stamping of cards shall be performed by the voluntary contributor;

(f) the contribution of a voluntary contributor shall be payable on the first day of each week unless the contributor is on that day incapable of work through some specific disease or bodily or mental disablement of which notice has been given, and in that case the contribution shall be payable on the first day after the termination of the incapacity;

tors.

Interpretation.

Notices of entry and withdrawal.

(e) the Commissioners shall be substituted for the postmaster
as the authority to whom in the case of a contributor
who is not a member of a Society application is to be
made for the issue of a card and no card shall be
issued in respect of any voluntary contributor by a
postmaster;
(f) a voluntary contributor shall produce his card when-
ever required to do so by the Society of which he

is a member, or, if he is not a member of a Society, by the Insurance Committee or by the Commissioners. (2) Every voluntary contributor who is a member of a Society shall surrender his card to his Society, or, if he is not a member of a Society, shall forward it to the Commissioners, at the times following, that is to say:

(i.) if he is a member of a Society,

(a) upon being transferred from one Society to another, in which case he shall surrender his card to the Society to which he is transferred and that Society shall transmit the card to the Society from which he is transferred; and

(b) upon otherwise ceasing to be a member of a Society; (ii.) whether he is or is not a member of a Society,

(a) upon the card becoming defaced so as to be useless for the purpose for which it was intended;

(b) within seven days after the expiration of the period of currency of the card; and

(c) in the case of a woman who marries, upon her marriage: Provided that where a deposit contributor becomes a member of a Society, he shall, upon joining that Society, surrender his card to the Society and the Society shall, if so required by the Commissioners, transmit the card to the Commissioners.

PART IV.
OUTWORKERS.

18. In this Part of these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:-

Year" means a period comprising two successive periods of currency and beginning in June or July, as the case may be;

A unit of work means such amount of work as may be fixed under this Part of these Regulations for any class or classes of work in which an outworker is employed.

19. (1) Any person who is the employer of an outworker may give a notice (in this Part of these Regulations called a "notice of entry ") to the Commissioners in the form set out in the first part of the Second Schedule to these Regulations or in such form to the like effect as may from time to time be approved by the Commissioners, either in respect of all outworkers employed by him, or in respect of any class of outworkers employed by him; and where any such notice of entry is given, this Part of these Regulations shall, as from the day on which the notice takes effect, apply to all outworkers in respect of whom the notice is given, and paragraph (1) of the Third Schedule to the Act shall

cease to apply to such outworkers during the currency of the notice.

(2) A notice of entry shall not, without the consent of the Commissioners, take effect save from the first day of the period of currency next following, or be given less than fourteen days. before it takes effect.

(3) An employer who has given a notice of entry may give a notice in writing (in this Part of these Regulations called a "notice of withdrawal ") to the Commissioners, that he desires that this Part of these Regulations shall no longer apply to the outworkers employed by him, or to any class of those outworkers; and where any such notice of withdrawal is given, this Part of these Regulations shall, as from the day on which the notice takes effect, cease to apply to all outworkers in respect of whom the notice is given.

(4) A notice of withdrawal shall not, without the consent of the Commissioners, be given less than one month before the date specified therein as the date on which the notice is to take effect, or take effect except on the termination of two, or any multiple of two, periods of currency from the date on which this Part of these Regulations first became applicable to the outworkers specified in the notice: Provided that for the purpose of this paragraph where a notice of entry has taken effect at a date other than the commencement of a period of currency it shall be deemed to have become applicable to the outworkers specified therein as from the commencement of the period of currency in which it took effect, or from the commencement of the next succeeding period of currency, if in any particular case the Commissioners so determine.

(5) An outworker, regularly employed by an employer who has not given a notice of entry applicable to that outworker, may give notice in writing to any other employer who has given a notice of entry, that he desires that this Part of these Regulations shall no longer apply to him, and this Part of these Regulations shall thereupon cease to apply to the outworker as from the termination of the period of currency in which such notice is given by him, or if the employer to whom such notice is given consents, as from any earlier date after the outworker has given such notice. (6) For the purpose of this Part of these Regulations a class of outworkers includes

(a) all outworkers employed by an employer in a particular locality;

(b) all outworkers employed by an employer in doing any particular class or classes of work;

(c) any outworker who may from time to time sign a statement in the form set out in the second part of the Second Schedule to these Regulations, or a form to the like effect, agreeing that all contributions payable in respect of him under the Act shall be paid by reference to the work done by the outworker: Provided that any form so signed by an outworker shall be retained by the employer and shall, on demand, be produced by him to any inspector or other officer appointed under the Act.