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to the credit of the Administration Account for the
succeeding year under the provisions hereinafter con-
tained, the maximum sum which may be carried to
that account for the last mentioned year out of con-
tributions payable under the principal Act shall be
reduced by the amount of that excess, but in any case
where a Society or branch has accepted a transfer of
engagements of another Society or branch on whose
administration account a deficiency is shown, the
Commissioners may modify the foregoing limitation
to such extent and for such period as appears to them
to be equitable in the circumstances;

(ii) where by reason of expenditure charged to an Adminis-
tration Account not being properly incurred for the
purposes of the administration of benefits, any sum
which would otherwise have been payable to a Society.
or branch out of moneys provided by Parliament
towards the cost of administration of benefits is with-
held, a sum equal to the amount so withheld shall be
debited to the Administration Account and credited
to the Contribution Account of that Society or branch.
for the year in which the amount is withheld;
(iii) nothing in this Part of these Regulations shall prevent a
contribution being made out of the Administration
Account of the Head Office or of any District of a
Society with branches towards the administration
expenses of any such branches, if the rules of the
Society so provide.

(2) No part of any sums payable out of moneys provided by Parliament towards the cost of administration shall be carried by a Society or branch to its Administration Account, but such sum shall be credited to the Contribution Account of the Society or branch.

47. Where a deficiency, or any part thereof, which would Deficiency otherwise arise in the year ending on 31st December, 1917, due to or the year ending on 31st December, 1918, is due to expen- expenditure on medical diture in connection with the appointment and payment of referees. medical referees during that year, there may be carried out of contributions payable under the principal Act to the Administration Account for that year, in addition to the sum payable under the last preceding Article, a sum equal to the sum required to meet the deficiency or to the sum so expended, whichever is the less sum, so, however, that the amount so carried to the Administration Account for either of the said two years shall not exceed twopence for each person who was a member of the Society or branch at the commencement of the year.

48. Any surplus shown in the Administration Account of any Society or branch for any year shall be carried forward to the Administration Account of the Society or branch for the following year and shall be available for defraying the cost of the administration of benefits in that year.

Surplus to

be carried forward.

Methods of dealing with deficiency.

49. (1) If upon the Administration Account of any Society or branch being balanced a deficiency is shown, then, if the deficiency is not otherwise defrayed within the proper time, the Committee of Management of the Society or branch, as the case may be, shall forthwith cause a special levy to be made, sufficient to make good the deficiency and payable within two months, upon all the persons who are, at the date as at which the account is balanced, members of the Society or branch, and shall carry to the Administration Account the proceeds of that levy:

Provided that

(i) where a deficiency does not amount to a sum equal to sixpence a member, the deficiency may be carried forward to the Administration Account for the succeeding year, and in such case the deficiency shall be a charge against the sums credited to the Administration Account for that year;

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(i) where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that a deficiency on the Administration Account has arisen out of conditions connected with the present war, and is such as could not reasonably have been prevented without prejudicing the efficiency or welfare of the Society or branch, the Commissioners may authorise such deficiency to be carried forward the Administration Account of the Society branch for such subsequent year as they may determine subject to the Society or branch taking such steps as the Commissioners may, after consultation with the Committee of Management of the Society or branch, require for the purpose of securing a reduction in the cost of administration of the Society or branch and otherwise, and any deficiency carried forward in accordance with these provisions shall be a charge against the sums credited to the Administration Account to which such deficiency is carried forward;

(iii) where upon the audit of the Administration Account of a Society or branch there is shown to be a deficiency which was not disclosed when the account was balanced or a greater deficiency than was then disclosed, the deficiency or the excess of the deficiency over the amount previously disclosed, as the case may be, may, if the Commissioners so permit, be carried forward to the Administration Account of the Society or branch for the succeeding year, and in such case the deficiency shall be a charge against the sums credited to the Administration Account for that year.

(2) For the purposes of this Article the expression "the proper time" means, in the case of a Society or branch whose Administration Account is balanced as at the end of the year, a period of six months after the end of the year, and, in the case of a Society or branch whose Administration Account is required to be balanced in the course of the year, means such period after the date when the account is balanced as the Commissioners may determine.

(3) Where by virtue of any Regulations made under paragraph (b) of Section 17 of the Act of 1918 a member of a Society or branch is subject to a reduction or suspension of benefits in respect of the non-payment of a levy on account of a deficiency on an Administration Account, the Society or branch shall carry from its Benefit Fund Account to the Administration Account on which the deficiency was shown, the amount of the levy.

(4) Where in the Administration Account of a Society or branch for the year to 31st December, 1914, or for any previous period of account a deficiency is shown, and such deficiency has not been made good otherwise, then notwithstanding anything in any Regulations at the time in force, such deficiency shall, unless the Commissioners otherwise direct, be treated for all purposes as if it had been duly carried forward to the Administration Account for the succeeding period of account, in accordance with the provisions of the said Regulations.

50. In Articles 47 and 49 of these Regulations, "member" has the meaning assigned to it in the Second Schedule to these Regulations, save that it does not include any member who is a seaman, marine, soldier, or airman, to whom the provisions of Section 46 of the principal Act apply, and "Commissioners," where used in connection with the method of making good a deficiency, means the body of Commissioners constituted for that part of the United Kingdom in which the deficiency arises, or, where the deficiency arises in an Administration Account which relates to more than one part of the United Kingdom, means the body of Commissioners constituted for the part of the United Kingdom in which the Head Office of the Society or branch in whose account the deficiency is disclosed is situated.

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51. Any deficiency which arises in the Administration Account Deficiency of the Head Office or of any District of a Society with branches in Head shall, if not otherwise defrayed, be made good in the manner Office or provided by the rules of the Society within one month after the District first general meeting of the Society or District held after the end of the year in respect of which the deficiency has arisen.

PART VI.

JOINT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTS AND CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

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PAYMENTS.
General.

Account.

tion.

52. In this Part of these Regulations, unless the context other- Interpretawise requires"Society means a Society registered under the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, (a) or under the Trade Unions Acts, 1871 to 1913, (b) or under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893, (c) and carrying on other business (hereinafter referred to as "private business'), as well as business under the principal Act (hereinafter referred to as "State business');

(a) 59-60 V. c. 25.

(b) 34-5 V. c. 31 ; 39–40 V. c. 22; 6 E. 7. c. 14 ; 2-3 G. 5. c. 30,
(c) 56-7 V. c. 39.

Power to keep Joint Management

Account or

make Contract Administration Payment.

Procedure in application for consent

of Com

missioners to
Joint
Management
Account.

"State Administration Account " means the Administration Account in respect of the State business;

"District "has the meaning assigned to it in Part V of these Regulations.

53. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Part of these Regulations, a Society may, if its rules so provide and if a resolution in, or as nearly as may be in, the appropriate form set out in the first part of the Third Schedule to these Regulations is passed at a general meeting of the Society, and on obtaining the consent in writing of the Commissioners

(i) keep a joint account for the purpose of the administra-
tion expenses of both the private business and the
State business or for the purpose of some part
of those expenses (which joint account is hereinafter
referred to as a "Joint Management Account "), or
(ii) pay for any year out of the funds standing to the credit
of the State Administration Account to the account
kept by the Society in respect of the private business,
or if there is a separate Management Fund in con-
nection therewith, to that Fund, a sum not exceeding
the amount hereinafter prescribed upon the terms
that all or some part of the administration expenses
in connection with the State business shall be defrayed
out of that account or fund (which payment is herein-
after referred to as a Contract Administration Pay-
ment"):

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Provided that the Commissioners shall not give their consent to a Society keeping a Joint Management Account or making a Contract Administration Payment in respect of services for the purpose of its State business where similar services are not required and performed for the purpose of its private business.

(2) The sum payable from the State Administration Account of a Society under the provisions of this Part of these Regulations in respect of any year shall not exceed such an amount for each member or class of member of the Society for the purpose of State business as appears to the Commissioners to represent the average annual cost to the Society for each such member or class of member of the services to be provided in consideration of such payment during the three immediately preceding years or such other period as the Commissioners may determine:

Provided that if any of the services aforesaid are new or extended services such addition may be made to the average annual cost as appears to the Commissioners to be equitable in the circumstances.

Joint Management Account.

54. (1) As soon as may be after the meeting of a Society at which a resolution to keep a Joint Management Account has been passed, the Committee of Management of the Society shall submit to the Commissioners

(a) copies of the notice of the meeting and of the resolution; (b) a statement of the number of members of the Society, showing separately the number of members for State

business only, the number of members for private
business only, and the number of members for both
State business and private business;

(c) a statement of the number of members present at the
meeting;

(d) a statement of the number of votes cast for and against
the resolution;

(e) particulars, in respect of each of the three immediately
preceding years, or such other period as the Com-
missioners may determine, of-

(i) the cost, summarised in a form to be
approved by the Commissioners, of the
services for State business and private
business respectively to be paid for out of
the Joint Management Account; and

(ii) the number of members for State business
and for private business respectively at the
beginning of each year.

(2) The Committee of Management shall furnish such further particulars and such books, accounts and documents as the Com missioners may require.

55.-(1) Save as hereinafter provided, the period for which a Period of Joint Management Account may be kept shall be the calendar Account.

year.

(2) A Society may terminate an arrangement to keep a Joint Management Account as at the expiration of any year by passing in general meeting prior to the expiration of that year a resolution to that effect and furnishing to the Commissioners within seven days a copy of the resolution, and the Commissioners may terminate an arrangement for a Joint Management Account at the expiration of any year on giving three months' previous notice in writing to the Society:

Provided that where a Society has arranged to amalgamate with or to transfer its engagements to another Society, or to dissolve, the Committee of Management may with the consent of the Commissioners terminate the arrangement as at some other date.

Account.

56. The Committee of Management may make such payments Advances to to the Joint Management Account towards the sum payable Joint thereto for the year from the State Administration Account as Management they think fit, so, however, that such payments shall not at the end of any quarter exceed the proportion to that date of the estimated sum payable for the year from the State Administration. Account.

57. Where a Society proposes to establish a Joint Management Provision for Account it shall satisfy the Commissioners as to the arrange- loss by ments made under its rules relative to its private business for malversa security against malversation or misappropriation of funds and tion. that such arrangements provide that any loss from such cause in respect of any sum at the credit of or falling to be credited

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