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THE MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH, UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACTS, 1911 TO 1925. The Irish Insurance Commissioners in exercise

the several powers conferred on them by the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1925, and with the concurrence

the Minister for Local Government and Public Health hereby make the following Regulations:— 1.— These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Amendment Regulations, 1925, and shall be read as one with the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Regulations, 1918 to 1924 (hereinafter referred to as the "Principal Regulations"), and these Regulations and the Principal Regulations may be cited together as the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Regulations, 1918 to 1925. 2.—

Article 43

the Principal Regulations:— "(bb) any other improper payment

benefit where the Society or branch satisfies the Commissioners that the payment in question has not been made in wilful breach

the provisions

the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1925, or

any regulations made thereunder, and that, in the special circumstances

the case, the payment may reasonably be treated as expenditure on benefits." 3.—Article 49

the Principal Regulations, as substituted by Article 7

the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Amendment Regulations, 1922, shall have effect as if in paragraph

Section 17

(b)

the Act

1918" were substituted for the words "within four weeks

the date

the notice thereof." 4.—In paragraph (aa)

Article 46

the Principal Regulations (which paragraph was added to the said Regulations by Article 6

the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Amendment Regulations, 1922) for the words "such sum as may hereafter be prescribed" there shall be substituted the following words:— "a sum at a rate not exceeding the proportion stated below

the amount paid by the Society or branch out

sums available under the scheme for provision

that benefit in the year, viz.:— (

1. a)for the year 1921, ten per cent. (
2. b)for the year 1922, seven and one-half per cent. (
3. c)for the year 1923 and each subsequent year, five per cent.; " Provided that in respect

the period up to the 31st day

December, 1922, the following proportions may, if a Society so deisres, be substituted in the case

that Society for those stated above, viz.:— (

1. a)for the year 1921, nothing. (
2. b)for the year 1922, ten per cent. "Provided also that in respect

any amount so paid by the Society or branch which is declared by the Commissioners to be capital expenditure there shall be substituted for the above proportions such portion

the amount as the Commissioners may determine." 5.—The Schedule to the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Amendment Regulations, 1922, shall be read and have effect for the year 1921 and subsequent years as though the following provisions were inserted therein after paragraph

additional benefits includes an increase

sickness or disablement or maternity benefit has accepted a transfer

the engagements

a society or branch which has no scheme providing for an increase

any

such benefits, then for the purpose

determining what further amount may be carried to the administration account under the proviso to the foregoing paragraph, the number

members shall, so long as persons who were members

the last-mentioned society or branch are not entitled to such increase, be reduced by a number representing the membership

that society or branch during the latest year during the whole

which that society or branch was empowered to transact business under the principal Act. "

sickness or disablement or maternity benefit has accepted a transfer

the engagements

, or has amalgamated with, a society or branch having a scheme which does so provide, there may, during the currency

such scheme, be carried to the administration account

the first-mentioned society or branch, or, in the case

an amalgamation,

the amalgamated society or branch, in addition to the amount referred to in paragraph

this Schedule an amount calculated at the rates specified in the proviso thereto for every person who was a member

the society or branch having a scheme providing for such increase during the latest year during the whole

which that society or branch was empowered to transact business under the principal Act." 6.*—The date as from which any pension, grant or allowance granted to any insured person in pursuance

any

the Acts mentioned in Section 2

the National Insurance (Part I. Amendment) Act, 1915, or any similar Act hereafter passed to which that Section shall be applied, as therein provided, by Regulations made by the Commissioners with the consent

the Minister for Finance, shall be treated, for the purposes

Section 11

the principal Act, as if it were compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, shall be the first day

June, 1915, or the date as from which the pension, grant or allowance has been granted to the insured person as aforesaid, whichever is the later. 7.**— Section 2

the National Insurance (Part I. Amendment) Act, 1915, shall apply to any Government scheme for compensation in respect

persons injured in any merchant ship or fishing vessel as the result

hostilities during the European war. 8.—In paragraph

Article 25

the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Regulations, 1918 (S. R. & O. 1918, No. 932) (which relates to the rate

interest to be credited to Approved Societies on sums standing to their credit in the Investment Account), there shall be substituted for the words "four per centum per annum" the words "four and one-half per centum per annum." This Article shall have effect as from the 1st day

January, 1923. 9.—Where, in pursuance

the Army Pensions Act, 1923 , relating to pensions

ficers and soldiers discharged from the armed forces

Saorstát Eireann as medically unfit for further service in consequence

wounds received during such service there has been granted to any person to whom Sections 20 to 25

the National Health Insurance Act, 1923 , as amended by Section 5

the National Health Insurance Act, 1924 , applied, or who was an insured person at the date

his discharge from the armed forces, a pension in respect

disablement in the highest degree, the rate

any sickness or disablement benefit to which that person may be entitled in respect

his insurance under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1925, shall throughout the period in respect

which that pension or a pension

a greater amount granted in lieu thereof, is payable, be reduced by seven shillings and six pence a week, notwithstanding anything in the said Acts to the contrary. * This Article supersedes the Provisional Regulations entitled the National Health Insurance (Injuries in War Compensation) Regulations, 1915, which were made, and came into force, on October 26, 1915 ** This Article supersedes the Provisional Regulations entitled the National Health Insurance (Injuries in War Compensation) Regulations, 1916, which were made, and came into force, on March 24, 1916. 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

benefit— (i) as respects sickness benefit if he proves that since the date

his discharge from the armed forces he has been employed within the meaning

the National Health Insurance Acts during twenty-six weeks, whether consecutive or not, and that twenty-six weekly contributions have been paid in respect

him; and (ii) as respects disablement benefit if he proves that since the date

his discharge from the armed forces 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

him. 10.

any such person as referred to in the last preceding Article are administered may, pending the settlement

his claim for pension, pay him benefit at the unreduced rate and where benefit at the unreduced rate has been paid pending such settlement the amount

the difference between the benefit at the unreduced rate and at the reduced rate for such period shall be treated as an advance, and shall, without prejudice to any other method

recovery, be recoverable by deductions from or suspension

any benefits which may subsequently become payable to the person in question.

the member's claim for pension, but actually made after the settlement

that claim, where at the date on which the payment was made the Society or branch had not received notice that the settlement had been made may be treated as expenditure on benefits so far as not otherwise recovered. 11. Where sickness or disablement benefit has been paid in error to a soldier in respect

the period

his service in the armed forces

Saorstát Éireann between the first day

April, 1922, and the date

the passing

the National Health Insurance Act, 1923 , the Society, Committee, or other body administering the benefit shall be entitled to recover the amount so paid by deductions from or suspension

any benefits which may subsequently become payable to the person in question. 12. The following Article shall be substituted for Article 44

the Principal Regulations:— 44. Every improper payment

benefit not treated as expenditure on benefits as aforesaid shall, in so far as not recovered before the expiration

the second year after that in which the payment was made, be charged to the Administration Account

the Society or branch for the said second year. GIVEN under the

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the Irish Insurance Commissioners this 26th day

September, in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five. PIERCE KENT, A person authorised by the Irish Insurance Commissioners to act on behalf

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