Regulations.

11. Every employed person to whom a card is delivered under Surrender of the preceding Article shall within seven days after the delivery of card by employed the card to him, or if the card is delivered to him at any place out person. of the United Kingdom, as soon as practicable thereafter, surrender it to the Society of which he is a member, or if he is not a member of a Society, to the Minister.

12. Articles 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, and Part VII. of the Application principal Regulations shall, so far as they are not inconsistent of principal regulations. with this Part of these Regulations, apply to a person employed in a foreign-going ship with this modification that, where such a person is unable on account of absence at sea or outside the United Kingdom to perform an act required by those Regulations to be done either forthwith on the happening of a certain event or within a specified time, he shall be deemed to have complied with those Regulations if he performs the act as soon as is reasonably possible after the happening of the event or the expiration of the specified time.

PART IV.

Payment of contributions under Section 62 (4) of the

Insurance Act.

tions under

Act.

13.-(1) Where contributions under the Insurance Act are Payment of payable in respect of any person to whom subsection (4) of Section contribu62 of that Act applies, the managing owner, or, where there is s 62 (4) no managing owner, the person to whom the management of the of the ship is entrusted by or on behalf of the owner (hereinafter Insurance called the manager "), shall, subject as hereinafter provided, in the case of any such person employed in a home-trade ship within twenty-one days, and in the case of any such person employed in a foreign-going ship within three months, from the expiration of each quarter, send to the Minister a return showing in respect of each such ship for the whole period of any voyage or voyages terminating in that quarter the number of persons so employed in the ship in respect of whom contributions are payable under subsection (4) of Section 62 of the Insurance Act, and the total amount of the contributions so payable.

For the purposes of this Article the voyage of a ship to which subsection (4) of Section 116 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), applies shall be deemed to terminate as at the date of the termination of the agreement with the crew thereof in accordance with the provisions of the said subsection. (2) The amount of the contributions payable under subsection (4) of Section 62 of the Insurance Act shall be paid to the Minister at the time at which the return is made or at the expiration of the appropriate period within which a return is due to be made under paragraph (1) of this Article, whichever first occurs.

(3) Where no person to whom subsection (4) of Section 62 of the Insurance Act applies has been employed on a ship, or where the ship has not completed a voyage, during the quarter, the managing owner or manager of the ship shall write on the return

Master to

a statement to that effect and shall send the return to the Minister within the time prescribed by this Article for the sending of returns:

Provided that nothing herein contained shall require a return to be sent to the Minister in the case of a home-trade ship which either is a ship employed solely in harbours, or on short excursions or pleasure trips to sea, or is a tug boat, hulk, dredger or steam hopper and on which there is not employed any person to whom subsection (4) of Section 62 of the Insurance Act applies.

(4) Returns under this Article shall be in the forms set out in the Second Schedule to these Regulations or in such other forms substantially to the like effect as the Minister may from time to time determine.

(5) In this Article the word " quarter" means either the first thirteen weeks or the remaining portion of the period of currency of a card issued under the principal Regulations.

PART V.
Miscellaneous.

14. It shall be the duty of the master of every ship to comply comply with with all orders or directions given to him by the owner of the ship with a view to carrying into effect the provisions of the Insurance Act or of the Pensions Act or of these Regulations.

owner's

orders.

Assent of His Majesty's Post

masterGeneral.

15. Where by these Regulations anything is required to be done by a postmaster the Regulations shall have effect only in so far as His Majesty's Postmaster-General may concur therein.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

(1) CARD OF FOREIGN-GOING SEAMAN (MAN): CLASS A (M).

NATIONAL HEALTH AND PENSIONS INSURANCE.
Contribution Card for one Voyage.

(1) This Card is for use in the case of a Master, Seaman or Apprentice serving on a Foreign-going Ship or a Ship engaged in Regular Trade on Foreign Stations. It is available for the period of one voyage only.

(2) A full ls. 4d. contribution is payable for each week (commencing Monday) during the whole or any part of which the Seaman is employed. Of this amount 9d. may be charged against the Seaman in his Account of Wages.

If the Seaman has a permanent place of residence in Northern Ireland, and is not a member of the Seamen's National Insurance Society, the contribution is 1s. 3d. (Seaman's share, 8d.)

Regulations.

(3) Before the Seaman is discharged the Master must prepare a Card according to the instructions on the other side and cause it to be stamped to the total value of the contributions payable for the voyage. The Card must then be given to the Seaman. The Card must be stamped with Combined Health and Pensions Insurance Stamps, and each stamp must be cancelled at the time of affixing by writing the date of affixing in ink or stamping it with a metallic die across the face of the stamp.

(4) When a Seaman is left ashore ill, a Card must be stamped and given to him or, if the port is not within a British Possession, to the Consular Officer. If a Seaman dies or deserts, a stamped card must be given to the Superintendent or Consular Officer at the end of the voyage.

(5) The Seaman to whom this Card is given should at once enter the name of his Approved Society and his membership number in the space provided and then send the Card, with his Record Card, to the Society. If he is not a member of a Society he should post his Card to the Ministry of Health, Insurance Department; an addressed envelope can be obtained at any Post Office.

A person finding a lost Card should drop it into a Post Office letter box. If this Card is sent through the post it must be put in an envelope and postage must be prepaid unless the Card is sent to the Ministry of Health.

A Contribution is payable both by the Employer and by the Seaman for every week during the whole or any part of which the Seaman is employed.

TO THE SEAMAN-You must send this card at once to your
Approved Society. If you do not, you may lose benefits.

If the Seaman resides in NORTHERN IRELAND, see Instructions No. 2 over leaf as to the rate of Contribution.

If further Stamp spaces are required another Card should be used and attached.

The Insured Person should sign in the space below before returning the Card to his Society or, if he is not a member of a Society, to the Ministry of Health

The name of the Approved Society and Membership Number therein should also be given.

Signature or Mark of Insured Person

Witness to the Mark

Name of Approved Society.

Membership No. in Society

Any person who removes a stamp from a Card or makes use of a stamp removed from another Card is liable to prosecution.

(2) CARD OF FOREIGN-GOING SEAMAN (WOMAN): CLASS E (M).

[This Card is similar to the Class A (M) Card, with the substitution in the directions of the rate of contribution appropriate to women, and the insertion of the following note:

"Under the Act a woman who marries must notify her Society without delay."]

SECOND SCHEDULE.

HOME-TRADE SHIPS

FOREIGN-GOING SHIPS.*

* (Including fishing vessels proceeding beyond the following limits:On the South, Latitude 48° 30′ N.; on the West, Longitude 12° W.; on the North, Latitude 61° N.)

Quarterly Return of Contributions payable by [insert name and address

of owner] in respect of persons serving in the Mercantile Marine who neither are domiciled nor have a place of residence in the United Kingdom.

Return in respect of voyages terminated in the quarter ended

Regulations.

I hereby declare that the above Statement contains a full, just and true account and return to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Given under my hand this

day of

192

(Managing Owner or Manager.)

Given under the Official Seal of the National Health Insurance Joint Committee this 23rd day of December, in the year One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

(L.S.)

W. F. Wackrill,

Secretary to the National Health Insurance

Joint Committee.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this 23rd day of December, in the year One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

(L.S.)

W. A. Robinson, Secretary, Ministry of Health.

Given under the Official Seal of the Scottish Board of Health this 23rd day of December, in the year One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

(L.S.)

John Jeffrey,

Secretary, Scottish Board of Health.

Given under the Official Seal of the Ministry of Labour for Northern Ireland this 23rd day of December, in the year One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.