HOME-TRADE SHIPS.

Owner Address.

in respect of persons serving in the Mercantile Marine who:

2. MERCANTILE MARINE, COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS, REGULATIONS, 1918.

(a) Have been granted Certificates of Exemption from Compulsory Insurance;

hereby declare that the above Statement contains a full, just and true account and return to the best of

Given under

hand(s) this

-day of..

(Signed).

knowledge and belief.

3. Unclaimed Proceeds of Stamp Sales

Regulations, 1918.

[England, Scotland, and Wales.]

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Insurance (Unclaimed Proceeds of Stamp Sales) Regulations, 1918. (2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires :

"The principal Act" means Parts I. and III. of the National Insurance Act, 1911;

"The Act of 1913" means the National Insurance Act, 1913; "The Act of 1918" means the National Health Insurance Act,

1918;

The Commissioners

"

means the Insurance Commissioners, or the Scottish Insurance Commissioners or the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, as the case may require.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2. The residue of any sums received by the Commissioners on account of sales of stamps issued for the purpose of the principal Act and available for application under Section 29 of the Act of 1918 shall be applied in manner following :—

(i) Such part as the Commissioners may determine shall be applied in defraying the cost of benefits provided by the Navy and Army Insurance Fund for men who are or have been seamen, marines, soldiers or airmen in any case in which the cost of any benefit provided has not been chargeable to the Navy and Army Insurance Fund, the Deposit Contributors Fund or to any Approved Society by reason that the man's title to receive benefits out of either of the said Funds or from an Approved Society has not been established.

(ii) Such part as the Commissioners may determine shall be applied in paying any sums payable by virtue of Section 7 of the Act of 1913 or of any Regulations made under the proviso to Section 13 (1) of the Act of 1918 by persons who ceased to be employed by reason of becoming interned as prisoners of war in an enemy country or otherwise.

3. In the case of the sums referred to in the proviso to Section 29 aforesaid as representing contributions paid by or in respect of masters, seamen or apprentices serving on foreign-going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations, the proportion to be credited to the special fund established under Section 48 (6) of the principal Act shall be 97 per cent.

4. Approved Societies Consolidated Regulations, 1918.

Short title and

commence

ment.

PART I.

GENERAL.

[England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.]

1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Regulations, 1918, and, except as otherwise expressly provided, shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1918.

REGULATIONS, 1918.

(England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.]

2. The National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Revocation Regulations, 1916, and the National Health Insurance (Time for joining Regulations. of existing an Approved Society) (Outworkers) Regulations (Ireland), 1913, are hereby revoked, but without prejudice to any right, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred under either of those Regulations.

3.-(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires Interpreta"The principal Act" means Parts I and III of the National tion. Insurance Act, 1911, the Act of 1913" means the National Insurance Act, 1913, and " the Act of 1918 " means the National Health Insurance Act, 1918, and any reference to the principal Act shall, where necessary, include a reference to any Act which is deemed to be part of or to be construed as one with that Act;

"The Joint Committee

Joint Committee; "The Commissioners

means the National Health Insurance

means the Insurance Commissioners, or the Scottish, Irish or Welsh Insurance Commissioners, as the case may require, or where by virtue of any Regulations made by the Treasury under Section 83 of the principal Act, any power is exercisable by the Joint Committee or by the Joint Committee acting jointly with any of the above-mentioned bodies of Commissioners, means the Joint Committee or the Joint Committee acting jointly with any of those bodies of Commissioners, as the case may require;

Society" means an Approved Society;

'Branch means a branch for the purposes of the principal Act;
Committee of Management " means the Committee of Management
or other governing body of a Society or branch;

'Insured member " means, with reference to a Society or branch,
a member of the Society or branch for the purposes of the
principal Act;
"Half, Year" means any period in respect of which contribution
cards may be issued under any Regulations relating to the
collection of contributions made under the principal Act and
for the time being in force.

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to any provision of the principal Act which has been amended by any other Act shall be construed as a reference to that provision as so amended.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

amendments.

4. Where by any Regulations made at any time after these Regulations Regulations any Article or part of any Article or words are directed to be added to or to be reomitted from these Regulations, or to be substituted for any other Article printed with or part of any Article or words in these Regulations, then copies of these Regulations, printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office after such direction takes effect may be printed with any Article or part of any Article or words so added or omitted or substituted as such direction requires, and with the Articles and paragraphs thereof numbered in accordance with such direction, and these Regulations shall be construed as if they had, at the time at which such direction takes effect, been made with such addition, omission or substitution, and a reference in any Regulations made by the Joint Committee or any of the bodies of Commissioners to the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Regulations, 1918, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed to refer to these Regulations as amended by any other Regulations for the time being in force.

Rules of unregistered Societies.

Rules of

separate Sections.

REGULATIONS, 1918.

PART II.

CONSTITUTION OF UNREGISTERED SOCIETIES AND SEPARATE SECTIONS.
Unregistered Societies.

[England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.]

5. The constitution of a Society applying for approval under Section 23 of the principal Act (not being a Society registered or established under any Act of Parliament or by Royal Charter) shall be regulated by written or printed rules, or by some other instrument providing for the following matters :

(a) The name of the Society.

(b) The situation of the principal office of the Society.
(c) The objects of the Society.

(d) The manner of election and removal of the Committee of
Management, and in cases where the affairs of the Society are
managed by delegates, the manner of election and removal of
such delegates.

(e) The powers and duties of the Committee of Management.
(f) The manner of election and removal of trustees and other officers.
(g) The determination of the time and place of holding and the
manner of convening all meetings of the Society.

(h) The manner of determining disputes between the Society and
any person who is or has ceased to be a member of the Society
or branch or any person claiming through such person.

(i) The manner of admission and expulsion of members.

(j) The voluntary dissolution of the Society.

(k) The making and alteration of rules of the Society.

Separate Sections.

6. The constitution of a section established for the purposes of the principal Act shall be regulated by printed or written rules or by some other instrument providing for the following matters :

(a) The name of the section.

(b) The situation of the principal office of the section.

(c) The manner of the establishment of the section by the Society
and the manner in which the relation between the Society and
the section is defined.

(d) The following particulars with reference to the dissolution of
the connection between the section and the Society-

(i) the length of notice (not being less than one year) necessary
before dissolution;

(ii) the minimum period (not being less than three years from
the date of the approval of the section) which must elapse
before the notice can be given; and

(iii) the manner in which, upon any such notice taking effect,
the section shall be constituted so as to become a Society
or shall be wound up or otherwise dealt with so that pro-
vision may be made for the continued insurance of its
members.

(e) The manner of election and removal of the Committee of
Management, and in cases where the affairs of the section are
managed by delegates, the manner of election and removal of
such delegates.

(f) The powers and duties of the Committee of Management.
(g) The manner of election and removal of trustees and other
officers.

(h) The determination of the time and place of holding and the
manner of convening all meetings of the section.