PART VI. INTERMEDIATE EMPLOYERS. 34. (1) Where a contributor engaged in any of the employ- Intermediate ments specified in the first column of the Third Schedule to these employers. Regulations works under the general control and management of the person specified in the corresponding entry in the second column of that Schedule, that person (in this Part of these Regulations called the principal employer) shall, notwithstanding that he is not the immediate employer of the contributor, be deemed to be the employer for the purposes of the provisions of the Act relating to the payment of contributions, and those provisions and Part II. of these Regulations shall be construed and have effect as if that person were the immediate employer of the contributor. (2) The principal employer shall be entitled to deduct the amount of any contribution paid by him on behalf of any contributor whose employer he is deemed to be by virtue of this Part of these Regulations from any sums payable by him to the immediate employer in respect of the period or any part of the period for which the contribution has been paid, and upon any such contribution being so paid by the principal employer the immediate employer shall be entitled to recover from the employed contributor the like sum and in the like manner as if he had paid the contribution. PART VII. AND CONTRIBUTION CARDS, RECORD CARDS AND BENEFIT RECORDS, and 35. (1) The Commisioners shall supply record cards for issue to insured persons for the purpose of recording particulars of contributions and arrears and such other matters as the Commissioners may from time to time think fit, and the record cards for deposit contributors may, if the Commissioners so determine, include a statement of the cost of benefits provided. (2) Every Society upon issuing a contribution card to any member not previously a contributor, or upon accepting any contributor as a member, shall thereupon enter on a record card such particulars as may from time to time be required by the Commissioners, and shall issue that record card to that member: Provided that if the Commissioners are satisfied on the applica tion of any Society that for any reason it is desirable that record cards should not be issued by that Society to its members or any class of its members, the Commissioners may exempt that Society from its obligation to issue record cards to its members, and where any Society is so exempted these provisions shall not apply to the members of the Society so exempted. (3) Every Society shall, at such times as the Commissioners may require, enter on every record card coming into its possession such particulars as the Commissioners may from time to time require. (4) The Commissioners shall issue a record card to every deposit contributor as soon as may be after the time when he becomes a deposit contributor. Provisions as to issue, &c., of record cards. Surrender (5) A contributor who loses his record card may make application to the Society or the Commissioners, as the case may require, and upon the receipt of that application the Society or the Commissioners shall, if satisfied that the record card has been lost, and upon payment by the contributor, if so required, of a sum not exceeding threepence, issue to him a new record card. 36. (1) Every contributor shall deposit his record card with and deposit the Society of which he is a member, or, if he is not a member of a Society, with the Commissioners of record cards. Miscel contribution (i) upon surrendering his contribution card, and (ii) at all reasonable times when required so to do. (2) The Society or the Commissioners, as the case may be, shall return the record card to the contributor as soon as may be after the deposit. (3) Every contributor shall deposit his record card with the Society of which he is a member or with the Commissioners, as the case may be, upon the expiration of the period of currency thereof, and may so deposit his record card whenever it is so defaced as to be rendered useless for the purpose for which it is issued, and the Society or the Commissioners, as the case may be, shall issue to him a new record card, and shall, where the record card is deposited on the expiration of its period of currency, return the record card as soon as may be after the deposit: Provided that in the case of a record card being defaced, the Society or the Commissioners may, before issuing a new record card, require the contributor to pay a sum not exceeding threepence. (4) Where a contributor being a member of a Society is transferred from one Society to another Society, he shall surrender his record card to the Society to which he is transferred, and that Society shall cause to be entered in a new record card such particulars as the Commissioners may from time to time require, and shall issue to him that record card, and shall transmit to the Society from which he is transferred the record card so surrendered. (5) Where a person ceases to be insured, he shall surrender his record card to the Society of which he is a member, or if he is not a member of a Society, to the Commissioners. (6) Where during the currency of a record card a deposit contributor becomes a member of a Society he shall surrender his record card to the Society and the Society shall forward the record card to the Commissioners. 37.-(1) Upon the death of death of any insured person, any laneous pro- person having possession or thereafter obtaining possession visions as to of his card or record card shall, as soon as may be, deliver the same to the Society of which the deceased person was a member record cards. at the date of his death, or, if it cannot be delivered to the Society or if he was not a member of a Society, to the Commissioners. cards and (2) Any insured person and any person having in his possession the card or record card of an insured person shall produce it at any reasonable time when required so to do by any officer appointed under the Act, or duly authorised to act in the execution of the Act. (3) This Article shall, as far as may be, apply as respects an exempt person in like manner as it applies as respects an insured person. Records. 38. An insured person, being a member of a Society, shall Provisions be entitled, on making application therefor, to be furnished by as to Benefit his Society with a statement of his benefit record (hereinafter referred to as a "benefit record "), and the Society shall issue the benefit record accordingly: Provided that an insured person shall not be so entitled if in the benefit year then current he has already been furnished with such a benefit record, unless he has in the meantime been in receipt of sickness or disablement benefit. In the interpretation of this Article the expression "benefit year" has the meaning assigned to it in the Regulations relating to the benefits of persons in arrears made under the Act of 1918 and for the time being in force. 39. No person shall assign or charge or agree to assign or charge any card or record card or benefit record, and any sale, transfer, or assignment of or any charge on, any card or record card or benefit record shall be void and of no effect, and no person shall deface or destroy a card or record card or alter or amend any of the figures or particulars (other than his address) therein contained. 40.-(1) All cards for the purposes of the Act and these Regulations shall be in the forms set out in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations, or in such forms substantially to the like effect as may from time to time be approved by the Commissioners, and all cards, record cards, and benefit records shall be supplied by the Commissioners, and, save as otherwise expressly provided, shall be issued to insured persons without charge, and no cards, record cards or benefit records, other than those supplied by the Commissioners shall be issued to insured persons or used by any person for the purposes of the Act, or of these Regula tions: Provided that where a Society desires to obtain for issue to members a supply of cards, record cards or benefit records in excess of what the Commissioners consider to represent the requirements of the Society on the basis of the requirements of Societies in general, the Commissioners may, if they think fit, supply such excess and make such charge therefor as seems proper to them in the circumstances, and such charge may be debited to the Society in the books of the Commissioners. (2) All directions appearing upon a card shall be deemed to be incorporated in these Regulations. Contribution cards, &c., not to be assigned. Use of Forms in schedules PART VIII. Interpretation. Time for proving title to repayment. Form of claim. CLAIMS FOR REPAYMENT OF STATE PORTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR 41. In this Part of these Regulations, unless the context 66 Half-year means any period of currency in respect of which contribution cards may be issued under these Regulations; . "Claim" means an Application made under Section 9 of the Act of 1918. 42. The time within which an employer may, for the purpose of being entitled to repayment under Section 9 of the Act of 1918, prove to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that in pursuance of the provisions of that Section he has paid any sums representing that part of the contribution in respect of an employed contributor which under the provisions of the Act is payable out of moneys provided by Parliament shall be any time before the end of the half-year immediately succeeding the halfyear in respect of which or part of which the claim is made: Provided that (i) if an employer has within that time made a claim to the Commissioners in the manner required by this Part of these Regulations and the Commissioners are satisfied that he has been prevented by some reasonable and sufficient cause from completing his proof to their satisfaction within the said time, they may extend such time for such further period as they think fit; and (ii) if an employer makes a representation to the Commissioners before the end of a half-year that he desires to make one claim in respect of that half-year and of the immediately preceding half-year, the Commissioners may extend the time of proof as respects the immediately preceding half-year for such further period as they think fit. 43. (1) The claim shall be in writing in the form set out in the Fifth Schedule to these Regulations or in such other form providing for substantially the same particulars as the Commissioners may determine and shall be addressed to the Commissioners either directly or through such officer or person as the Commissioners may appoint for the purpose: Provided that where the books and accounts of an employer have been audited by an accountant carrying on public business as such, the Commissioners may, if they think fit so to do, accept a claim by such employer in such other form as they may approve, which claim shall contain a statement certified by the said accountant in lieu of the statement included in the prescribed form of claim. (2) Unless the Commissioners otherwise determine, a person making a claim in respect of a half-year or of any part thereof, shall be deemed to have included therein the total sum of which he is entitled to repayment under Section 9 aforesaid in respect of that half-year and shall not be entitled to make any subsequent claim in respect of that half-year or of any part thereof. (3) (a) In the case of a claim by a firm, the partner signing the claim in the firm's name shall append his own signature. (b) In the case of a claim by a company, corporation or association, the claim shall be signed by the manager or secretary, or other principal officer thereof. (c) In the case of a claim by a body of trustees, the claim shall be signed by one or more of the trustees. (4) Every person making a claim shall state fully and correctly all particulars required to be given in the claim and shall produce such books, accounts and documents and furnish such further particulars and such evidence by statutory declaration or otherwise in relation to the claim as the Commissioners may require |