1915. $. 2-4. Extension of 6. 11 of principal Act to certain pensions, &c. 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 30. Аст, 1915. Admiralty or Army Council think fit, be repaid by them out of any arrears in their hands of the pension due to that person (a). 2. Where any pension grant or allowance has been granted to any insured person in pursuance of the Injuries in War (Compensation) Act, 1914, or the Injuries in War (Compensation) Act, 1914 (Session 2), or the Injuries in War (Compensation) Act, 1915, or any similar Act (b) which may hereafter be passed and with respect to which regulations made by the Insurance Commissioners with the consent of the Treasury provide that this section shall apply, then as from the prescribed date such pension, grant or allowance shall, for the purposes of section eleven of the National Insurance Act, 1911, be treated as if it were compensation under the 6 Edw. 7, c. 58. Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906. 5 Geo. 5, c. 18. 5 Geo. 5, c. 24. Amendment of 8. 46 of principal Act. Short title and construction. 3.—(1) In paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section forty-six of the National Insurance Act, 1911, which relates to the insurance of persons in the naval and military service of the Crown, for the words "who within six months" there shall be substituted the words who within the prescribed period, not being more than six months" (c). (2) For paragraph (iv) of the same subsection the following paragraph shall be substituted : "(iv) There shall be credited to the approved society of which he is a member a sum equal to fourpence for each weekly contribution paid, and an equal sum shall be treated as having been expended on benefits, and the proper proportion thereof shall accordingly be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament." (3) For paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of the same section the following paragraph shall be substituted : "(b) There shall be credited to the Navy and Army Insurance Fund a sum equal to fourpence for each weekly contribution paid in respect of every seaman, marine, or soldier who has not joined an approved society, and an equal sum shall be treated as having been expended on benefits, and the proper proportion thereof shall accordingly be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament." (4) Subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall be deemed to have had effect as from the sixth day of July nineteen hundred and fourteen, and such financial adjustments as may consequently be necessary shall be made by the Insurance Commissioners. 4. (1) This Act may be cited as the National Insurance (Part I. Amendment) Act, 1915; and the National Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1914, 5 Geo. 5, c. 27. the National Insurance (Part II. Amendment) Act, 1915, and this Act may be cited together as the National Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1915. (2) This Act shall be construed as one with Part I. of the National Insurance Act, 1911. (a) The provisions of this sub-section were extended by Section 1 (2) of the National Insurance (Part I. Amendment) Act, 1917 (p. 92), so as to apply to the recovery of overpayments of benefit made between 1st April, 1917, and the date of the passing of that Act (viz., 17th May, 1917). (b) Section 3 of the Government War Obligations Act, 1915 (p. 123), provides that any scheme for compensation in respect of persons injured on any merchant ship or fishing vessel in connection with which any Government obligatious are incurred shall have the same effect for the purposes of this Section as if it were an Act of Parliament. (c) The part of paragraph (b) of Section 46 (2) of the principal Act referred to in this Section has now been repealed by Section 24 (4) of the National Health Insurance Aot, 1918 (p. 110). Аст, 1917. 6.-NATIONAL INSURANCE (TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT IN AGRICULTURE) ACT, 1916. [6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 53.] An Act to provide for the exception from Part I. of the National Insurance 1916. s. 1-2. 1917. s. 1. insurance persons 1.-(1) There shall be added to the classes of persons, employment Power to of whom may be excepted from the provisions of Part I. of the National exempt from Insurance Act, 1911, by special order made under paragraph (i) of the First Schedule to that Act, persons who, not being persons whose normal temporarily occupation is employment within the meaning of that Act, are temporarily employed in employed on or about any agricultural holding in consequence of the loss agriculture. of men through enlistment, or transference to Government service, or 55. other circumstances arising out of the present war. (2) A special order made under this section shall have effect only during the continuance of the present war and for such time thereafter as may be provided by or under the order, not exceeding six months after the end of the war, and the exemption conferred by the order shall be subject to such conditions and limitations as may be specified therein. (3) The provisions of Part I. of the National Insurance Act, 1911, as to the laying of regulations before both Houses of Parliament, and the proceedings consequent thereon (a) shall apply to special orders made under this section and section one hundred and thirteen of the said Act shall not apply thereto. 1 & 2 Geo. 5 2. This Act may be cited as the National Insurance (Temporary Short title. Employment in Agriculture) Act, 1916 7.--NATIONAL INSURANCE (Part I. AMENDMENT) ACT, 1917. [7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 15.] An Act to amend the enactments relating to National Health Insurance 1.-(1) For subsection (1) of section one of the National Insurance (Part I. Amendment) Act, 1915, the following subsection shall be substi- Amendment tuted : 44 of 5 Geo. 5, (1) Where, in pursuance of any Order in Council relating to (a) See Section 65 of the principal Act (p. 47). (b) These words were inserted by Section 47 (1) of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918 (p. 117). (c) These words were inserted by Section 47 (2) of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918 (p. 117). 1 & 2 Geo. 5. 1917. s. 2. Provision as men entitled to gratuities. ACT, 1917. service (a), a pension in respect of disablement in the highest degree, the rate of any sickness or disablement benefit to which that person may be entitled in respect of his insurance under the National Insurance Act, 1911, shall, throughout the period in respect of which that pension, or a pension of a greater amount granted in lieu thereof, is payable, be reduced by five shillings a week, notwithstanding anything in the said Act to the contrary : "Provided that a person to whom such a pension has been granted shall not be subject, or shall cease to be subject, to such reduction in the rate of benefit "(i) as respects sickness benefit, if he proves that since leaving naval, military, or other pensionable service (a) he has been employed within the meaning of the National Insurance Act, 1911, during twenty-six weeks, whether consecutive or not, and that twenty-six weekly contributions have been paid in respect of him; and (ii) as respects disablement benefit, if he proves that since leaving naval, military, or other pensionable service (a) he has been so employed during one hundred and four weeks, whether consecutive or not, and that one hundred and four weekly contributions have been paid in respect of him. "For the purposes of this subsection " (a) an allowance in lieu of pension to a person undergoing a special course of medical treatment or undergoing treatment in an institution or receiving training in a technical institution or otherwise; and "(b) a pension in respect of total disablement suffered in consequence of the present war, granted before the first day of April nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be treated as if such allowance or pension were a pension in respect of disablement in the highest degree." (2) Where benefit at the unreduced rate has been paid for any pericd between the first day of April nineteen hundred and seventeen and the passing of this Act to a person to whom a pension in respect of disablement in the highest degree has been granted since the first-mentioned date, then the amount of the difference between benefit at the unreduced rate and at the reduced rate for such period shall be treated as an advance, and subsection (2) of section one of the National Insurance (Part I. Amendment) Act, 1915, shall apply to the recovery thereof. 2. Where under any such Order or Warrant as aforesaid a gratuity to benefits of or temporary allowance of not less than thirty pounds, any portion of which is in respect of temporary total disablement, has on or after the first day of April nineteen hundred and seventeen been granted in place of a pension to any person to whom section forty-six of the National Insurance Act, 1911, applied, or who was an insured person (b), at the time of his leaving naval, military, or other pensionable service (a), he shall not from the date of the award or the date of the passing of this Act, whichever may be the later, be entitled in respect of his insurance under the National Insurance Act, 1911, to any sickness or disablement benefit until he proves that he has since leaving naval, military, or other pensionable service (a) been employed within the meaning of the National Insurance Act, 1911, during twenty-six weeks, whether consecutive or not, and that twenty-six weekly contributions have been paid in respect of him: (a) These words were substituted for the words "naval or military service Section 47 (3) of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918 (p. 117). (b) See footnote (c) on preceding page. by Provided that if such person at any time after the grant of the temporary allowance or gratuity to him becomes entitled to a pension under any such order or warrant, this section shall cease to apply to him. 1917. s. 3-5. 1918. s. 1. 3. In calculating arrears of contributions for the purposes of the National Insurance Act, 1911, no account shall be taken of any arrears Provision as accruing during any period when the person in question has been subjected to arrears. to a reduction of, or been disentitled to, sickness and disablement benefit by virtue of this Act. 4. Regulations of the Insurance Commissioners may provide that any man discharged from service as a seaman, marine or soldier, who is certified by the Admiralty or Army Council to be suffering from any disease or bodily or mental disablement in the manner provided by section one of the National Insurance (Navy and Army) Act, 1914 (Session 2), and who, by reason of his having elected not to pay contributions during the period of his service, or for any other reason, is not qualified under the National Insurance Act, 1911, to receive benefits out of the Navy and Army Insurance Fund, shall, subject to the prescribed conditions, become or continue to be entitled out of that fund to medical and sanatorium benefits. 5.-(1) This Act may be cited as the National Insurance (Part I. Amendment) Act, 1917, and the National Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1915, so far as they relate to health insurance, and this Act may be cited together as the National Insurance (Health) Acts, 1911 to 1917. (2) For the purposes of this Act a person shall not be deemed to have been employed in any week unless he proves that the remuneration received in respect of such employment was such as to provide a substantial contribution towards his means of livelihood in that week. (3) This Act shall be construed as part of Part I. of the National Insurance Act, 1911. Power to grant out of the Navy and Army Insur ance Fund benefits to persons not at present qualified to receive them. 5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 15. Short title, interpretation and construc tion. 8.-NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT, 1918. [7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 62.] An Act to amend the Acts relating to National Health Insurance. PART I. FINANCIAL PROVISIONS. [6th February, 1918.] 1.—(1) The sum to be retained by the Insurance Commissioners under Amendment subsection (3) of section fifty-five of the National Insurance Act, 1911 of s. 55 (3) of (in this Act referred to as the principal Act "), out of each weekly principal Act. contribution shall, in the case of an insured person being a woman, be 1 & 2 Geo. 5, one penny and one-sixth instead of one penny halfpenny. (2) The sums retained by the Insurance Commissioners under the said subsection shall, instead of being wholly applied towards discharging the liabilities of the Insurance Commissioners to approved societies in respect of reserve values, be applied in carrying to the Contingencies Fund and the Central Fund hereinafter constituted, amounts calculated in accordance with the provisions of the First Schedule to this Act, and the balance only shall be applied in discharging such liabilities as aforesaid and apportioned amongst societies in manner provided by subsection (4) of the said section : Provided that if at any time it appears to the National Health Insurance Joint Committee that, after taking into account the necessity of creating a proper reserve, the sums standing to the credit of the Central Fund are B2686 D c. 55. 1918. s. 2-3. Women's Equalisation Fund. Contingencies Funds and valuation. more than sufficient for the purposes for which that fund is established, the Committee may by regulations provide for decreasing the amounts to be carried to that fund and making a corresponding increase in the amounts to be carried to the Contingencies Fund. 2.-(1) There shall be established under the control of the National Health Insurance Joint Committee a fund to be called the Women's Equalisation Fund and to be applied in assisting approved societies in meeting their liabilities in respect of the sickness claims of women. (2) There shall in each year be charged on the Women's Equalisation Fund and distributed among approved societies in manner provided by a scheme to be made by the National Health Insurance Joint Committee, with the approval of the Treasury, such sum, not exceeding eight shillings in respect of each of the total number (calculated in the prescribed manner) of married women who are members of approved societies and who are employed contributors, as may be ascertained in accordance with the said scheme. (3) Subject as hereinafter provided, there shall in respect of each year be carried to the Women's Equalisation Fund out of moneys provided by Parliament such sum as will suffice to meet the charges thereon: Provided that the sum to be carried to the Fund in respect of each of the years nineteen hundred and thirteen, nineteen hundred and fourteen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall, instead of being provided as aforesaid, be provided out of the moneys voted by Parliament before the commencement of this Act in aid of the provision of sickness benefit for women, and in so far as the moneys so voted are insufficient to meet the aggregate charges on the fund in respect of those four years shall be provided out of the moneys applicable towards discharging the liabilities of the Insurance Commissioners to approved societies in respect of reserve values. (4) All sums distributed among societies under this section shall be available for the payment of benefits, and shall, for the purposes of section three of the principal Act, be deemed to have been derived from contributions made in respect of contributors notwithstanding that they are derived in whole or in part from moneys provided by Parliament. 3.-(1) The Insurance Commissioners shall periodically apportion amongst the several societies the sums by this Act directed to be carried to the Contingencies Fund in the case of men (a) in proportion to the number of contributions credited in respect of the members of those societies. respectively who are men, and the sums by this Act directed to be carried to the Contingencies Fund in the case of women (a) in proportion to the number of contributions credited in respect of the members of those societies respectively who are women, and the sums so apportioned to any society shall, with the proper proportion of the accumulations of interest on the amount from time to time standing to the credit of the fund, form the contingencies fund of the society, and be available for making good any deficiency of the society or of the branches thereof in manner hereinafter appearing, and no part of any surplus of any society or branch disclosed on a valuation shall be applied towards making good any deficiency in any other society or branch. (2) If on the valuation of a society without branches a deficiency is disclosed, the sums standing to the credit of the contingencies fund of the society shall be applied towards making good the deficiency; and if no deficiency is so disclosed, or if the sums standing to the credit of the contingencies fund are more than sufficient to make good that deficiency, the sums standing to the credit of that fund or the balance thereof shall, subject to the provisions of this section with respect to small societies, be carried to the benefit fund of the society, but any amount so carried (a) See Section 1 (2) of, and the First Schedule to, this Act (pp. 93 and 118). |