National Insurance Act 1913

SCHEDULES.

Section 28.

FIRST SCHEDULE Matters with respect to which Regulations may be made

A The manner and conditions in and upon which the following matters may be carried into effect :—

(i) The amalgamation for the purposes of Part I. of the principal Act of any two or more approved societies, or of an approved society with a society which is not an approved society, or of any two or move branches of an approved society :

(ii) The transfer by an approved society of its engagements under Part I. of the principal Act, or of such of those engagements as relate to members resident in a particular part of the United Kingdom, to any other approved society which undertakes to fulfil these engagements, and the transfer from one branch to one or more other branches or to the society of such engagements as aforesaid, (iii) The financial adjustments to be made on any such amalgamation or transfer.

B The manner and conditions in and upon which the dissolution of approved societies may be carried into effect, and for that purpose providing for the valuation of the assets and liabilities of dissolved societies under Part I. of the principal Act, and the reduction (either permanently or temporarily), in the event of a deficiency being disclosed, of the rates of benefits payable to members and the periods during which those benefits or any of them are payable, and for the establishment of a special fund to which contributions of such members are to be paid, and out of which their benefits are to be paid, and the application, subject to the prescribed modifications adaptations and exceptions, to such fund and the members thereof, of the provisions of Part I. of the principal Act relating to approved societies and the membership of and transfer to and from approved societies.

C Authorising the Commissioners to withdraw approval from a society on account of maladministration of its affairs under the principal Act in cases where it appears expedient in the interests of the members of the society to do so.

D The crediting or variation (whether by way of increase or .decrease) and cancellation of reserve values.

E Applying to the Navy and Army Insurance Fund and to members of that fund such of the provisions of the principal Act as amended by this Act, relating to approved societies and to membership of and transfer to and from approved societies, as the Commissioners think necessary for facilitating admissions to and transfer from the fund and for the proper administration of the fund, and for continuing the right to payment of maternity benefit out of that fund until the man is transferred to an approved society or becomes a deposit contributor, and for extending any of the provisions of subsection (3) of section forty-six of the principal Act to seamen, soldiers, and marines who are not members of an approved society.

F For enabling the sums required to be paid or credited in any year to insurance committees under subsection (1) of section sixty-one of the principal Act, instead of being paid or credited at the commencement of the year, to be paid or credited at such time or times and in such instalments and in such manner and proportions as may, with the consent of the Treasury, be prescribed.

G Enabling approved societies and insurance committees, and in the case of persons entitled to benefits out of the Navy and Army Insurance Fund, the Admiralty or Army Council, to appoint a person to exercise on behalf of any insured person of unsound mind any right of election which that person is, under Part I. of the principal Act entitled to exercise, and to appoint a person to receive on behalf and for the benefit of such person any sums by way of benefit which would otherwise have been payable to him.

Section 37.

SECOND SCHEDULE

1 Draft, or order, or receipt given by or to an approved society, or branch, or insurance committee in respect of money payable in pursuance of Part I. of the principal Act, or of the rules of the society or branch.

2 Letter or power of attorney granted by any person as trustee for the transfer of any money of an approved society, or branch, or insurance committee invested in his name in the public funds.

3 Bond or other security given to, by, or on account of an approved society or branch, or by the treasurer or other official thereof.

4 Appointment or revocation of appointment of agent, or other document required or authorised by or in pursuance of Part I. of the principal Act, or by the rules of an approved society or branch.

5 Agreement entered into between an approved society or branch and an insurance committee in regard to medical benefit under Part I. of the principal Act.

Section 43.

THIRD SCHEDULE Enactments Repealed

• Subsection (4) of section one.

• Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section four.

• In subsection (5) of section eight the words ("and at least fifty " weekly contributions have been paid by or in respect of him ").

• Subsection (3) of section nine.

• Subsection (6) of section ten.

• Proviso (i) of subsection (2) of section twelve.

• Subsection (1) of section eighteen, from (" but if in the case of a " midwife being selected ") to the end of that subsection.

• Subsection (3) of section forty-five.

• Section forty-nine.

• Table C. in Part I. of the Fourth Schedule.