National Health Insurance Act, 1924
What is this act about?
This law establishes a Medical Certification Fund under the Irish Insurance Commissioners and amends previous National Health Insurance Acts to manage how this fund is financed and used for medical certification purposes.
Who it applies to: Approved societies and their members; Members of the Military Forces (International Arrangements) Insurance Fund, Deposit Contributors' Fund, and Exempt Persons' Fund.
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- Ireland
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What does this act regulate?
- The creation and management of the Medical Certification Fund.
- The method for funding the Medical Certification Fund through debits from various insurance funds.
- The transfer of certain unclaimed sums from the Stamp Sales Account to the Medical Certification Fund.
- The payments to be made from the Medical Certification Fund for medical certification and second medical opinions.
Who does this act apply to?
- Approved societies and their members.
- Members of the Military Forces (International Arrangements) Insurance Fund, Deposit Contributors' Fund, and Exempt Persons' Fund.
What are the key points?
- A Medical Certification Fund is established under the control of the Irish Insurance Commissioners.
- Tenpence is debited for each member (not a serving soldier) from the benefit fund of every approved society, the Military Forces (International Arrangements) Insurance Fund, and the Deposit Contributors' Fund.
- Fivepence is debited for each member of the Exempt Persons' Fund.
- Sums are paid out of the fund for medical practitioners' services for medical certification in 1924 and to approved societies for the cost of obtaining second medical opinions, at a rate not exceeding one penny and one half-penny per annum per member.
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NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT, 1924.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS Section
Section 1
Establishment of Medical Certification Fund.
Section 2
Method of providing funds for Medical Certification Fund.
Section 3
Certain sums to be transferred from Stamp Sales Account to Medical Certification Fund.
Section 4
Sums to be paid out of the Medical Certification Fund.
Section 5
Application of Part IV of the National Health Insurance Act, 1923.
Section 6
Extension of section 27 of National Health Insurance Act, 1923.
Section 7
Commencement, duration, short title, and construction.
Act Referred to National Health Insurance Act, 1923 No. 20 of 1923 Number 30 of 1924.
NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT, 1924.
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A MEDICAL CERTIFICATION FUND UNDER THE CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF THE IRISH INSURANCE COMMISSIONERS, AND FOR THAT PURPOSE AND ALSO FOR OTHER PURPOSES TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACTS, 1911 TO 1923. [28th July, 1924.] BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:— Establishment of Medical Certification Fund.
1.—There shall be established under the control and management of the Irish Insurance Commissioners, a fund to be known as the Medical Certification Fund.
Method of providing funds for Medical Certification Fund.
2.—(1) There shall be debited— (a) to the benefit fund of every approved society, the sum of tenpence in respect of each member (not being a serving soldier) of that approved society, and (b) to the Military Forces (International Arrangements) Insurance Fund, the sum of tenpence in respect of each member (not being a serving soldier) of that fund, and (c) to the Deposit Contributors' Fund, the sum of tenpence in respect of each member of that fund, and (d) to the Exempt Persons' Fund, the sum of fivepence in respect of each member of that fund.
Certain sums to be transferred from Stamp Sales Account to Medical Certification Fund.
3.—(1) Subject to the limitation hereinafter prescribed, such part as the Irish Insurance Commissioners shall direct of the sums which under section 29 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918 (which provides for the disposal of sums unclaimed in the Stamps Sales Account) would be carried to the National Health Insurance Central Fund shall, instead of being so carried, be credited to the Medical Certification Fund.
Sums to be paid out of the Medical Certification Fund.
4.—There shall be paid out of the Medical Certification Fund— (a) such sums in respect of the year 1924 as the Irish Insurance Commissioners with the approval of the Minister for Finance may determine to be payable to medical practitioners for medical certification, and (b) to each approved society such sum calculated at a rate not exceeding one penny and one half-penny per annum in respect of each member (not being a serving soldier) of the society as may be required to meet any sums sanctioned by the Minister for Finance for payment in the year 1924 to that approved society in respect of the cost of obtaining second medical opinions.
Application of Part IV of the National Health Insurance Act, 1923.
5.—Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in sub-section (1) of section 25 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1923 (No. 20 of 1923), Part IV of that Act shall apply and be deemed always to have applied to soldiers enlisted after the 1st day of May, 1923, for a period exceeding twelve months as well as to the soldiers mentioned in the said sub-section.
Extension of section 27 of National Health Insurance Act, 1923.
6.—
Section 27
(which relates to the application of sums unclaimed in the Stamps Sales Account) of the National Health Insurance Act, 1923 (No. 20 of 1923), shall continue in force until the 31st day of December, 1925.
Commencement, duration, short title, and construction.
7.—(1) This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on and shall be in force and have effect as on and from the 1st day of January, 1924.
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