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20 1923

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT, 1923

PART III.

ADAPTATION OF ENACTMENTS AND MUTUAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Adaptation of enactments.

15. —(1) The Insurance Commissioners may for the purpose of Section 4 of the Act of 1918 establish a fund to be called the National Health Insurance Central Fund, to which shall be carried so much of the Central Fund established under the control of the Joint Committee in pursuance of the said Section 4 as on the apportionment of that Fund between Great Britain and Saorstát Eireann is found to be attributable to Saorstát Eireann.

(2) Every mention or reference contained in the Acts (including Section 4 of the Act of 1918) of or to the Central Fund established under the said Section 4 shall be construed and take effect as a mention of or reference to the National Health Insurance Central Fund established under this Section.

(3) The Acts shall in their application to Saorstát Eireann have effect as if—

(a) for the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds mentioned in sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the Act of 1918 there were substituted the sum of five thousand pounds; and

(b) for the sum of thirty thousand pounds mentioned in Section 31 of the Act of 1913 there were substituted the sum of one thousand pounds.

(4) References in the Acts to the United Kingdom shall, in the application of the Acts to Saorstát Eireann, be construed as references to Saorstát Eireann, except that in sub-section (10) of Section forty-eight of the Act of 1911 the reference to the United Kingdom shall be construed as a reference to Saorstát Eireann or Great Britain.

Provisions as to temporary residence.

16. —If a person who is insured in Saorstát Eireann is temporarily resident in Great Britain he, and in the case of maternity benefit his wife, shall not by reason of such residence be disentitled to sickness, disablement or maternity benefit, and such benefit shall be payable by the Society or out of the fund by or out of which it would have been payable had the insured person continued to reside in Saorstát Eireann.

Mutual arrangements.

17. —(1) If the Insurance Commissioners and the Joint Committee enter into arrangements—

(a) for securing continuity of insurance of persons who being insured in Saorstát Eireann or Great Britain are or become resident and employed in Great Britain or Saorstát Eireann as the case may be (including the insurance of men serving in the armed forces of Saorstát Eireann, who previously to enrolment or enlistment in any such forces were resident in Great Britain, and of men who, having so served within six months after their discharge from any such forces, become resident in Great Britain);

(b) for securing exemption from liability to make contributions in the case of persons who, being ordinarily resident and not insured in Saorstát Eireann, become temporarily employed in Great Britain, or who, being ordinarily resident and not insured in Great Britain, become temporarily employed in Saorstát Eireann;

(c) with respect to the insurance of persons who, being resident in Saorstát Eireann, are employed either temporarily or permanently in Northern Ireland, or who, being resident in Northern Ireland, are employed either temporarily or permanently in Saorstát. Eireann;

(d) in the case of a ship registered in Saorstát Eireann or Great Britain, the owner of which resides or has his principal place of business in Great Britain or Saorstát Eireann as the case may be, for determining whether contributions payable in respect of the persons employed on the ship are to be payable under the Acts in their application to the country in which the ship is registered, or under the Acts in their application to the country in which the owner resides or has his principal place of business;

(e) for rendering insurable persons who in consequence of the establishment of Saorstát Eireann are no longer insurable either under the Acts in their application to Saorstát Eireann or under the Acts in their application to Great Britain;

the Insurance Commissioners shall with the consent of the Minister for Finance make such Orders as may be necessary to carry out any such arrangements, and may by any such Order make such modifications in the Acts in their application to Saorstát Eireann and to persons resident or employed therein as may be necessary to give effect to the arrangements, and for enabling such financial adjustments to be made as may be necessary or expedient in consequence of any such arrangements:

Provided that such Order shall not come into force unless and until the Insurance Commissioners are satisfied that reciprocal provisions having the force of law in Great Britain have been made for carrying the arrangements into effect in Great Britain, and shall continue in force only so long as such reciprocal provisions continue to have the force of law in Great Britain.

(2) An Order under this Section may provide that where an owner of a ship registered in Saorstát Eireann does not reside or have his principal place of business in Saorstát Eireann, the agent in Saorstát Eireann of the owner shall for the purposes of the Acts in their application to Saorstát Eireann be deemed to be the employer of the master and members of the crew of the ship.

(3) For the purposes of this Section, where there is more than one owner of the ship, the managing owner or manager shall be deemed to be the owner.

Adaptation of sub-section 6 of Section 48 of the Act of 1911.

18. —Sub-section 6 of Section 48 of the Act of 1911 shall not apply to Saorstát Eireann, and any contributions which would have been credited to the special fund therein mentioned shall be dealt with in such manner as the Insurance Commissioners may prescribe.

Transfer of powers of Joint Committee.

19. —Every power, jurisdiction or duty which was immediately before the first day of April, 1922, exercisable or to be performed by the Joint Committee under the Acts in respect of the area now within the jurisdiction of Saorstát Eireann shall henceforth be exercisable and performed by the Insurance Commissioners exclusively, and shall be deemed to have been so exercisable and to be performed as on and from the first day of April, 1922.