No. 17/1929:

Regulations dated 13th May, 1929, made by the Irish Insurance Commissioners, with the concurrence of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, further amending the Approved Societies Consolidated Regulations (Ireland), 1918.

The Irish Insurance Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1928, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, do hereby, with the concurrence of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, make the following Regulations:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Amendment Regulations, 1929,* and shall be read as one with the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Regulations, 1918 to 1926 (hereinafter referred to as the "Principal Regulations").

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"`The Central Dental Committee' means the provisional Committee set up on 16th December, 1927, with the approval of the Insurance Commissioners by representatives of (1) Approved Societies Association of Ireland, (2) the Irish Dental Association, and (3) the Incorporated Dental Society of Ireland and their successors in Office nominated annually."

3. The Interpretation Act, 1889, as modified and adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), applies to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Oireachtas.

4. The following paragraph shall be added to Article 4 of the Approved Societies Amendment Regulations, 1925:—

"As from the 1st July, 1928, there shall be debited each year to the Dental Benefit Account of each Approved Society, administering Dental Benefit, and credited to a Fund called the Central Dental Committee Fund a sum, calculated in the manner set out in the Schedule to these Regulations."

*These Regulations supersede the Provisional Regulations entitled the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) (Amendment) Regulations, 1929, which were made and came into force on 19th March, 1929.

5. There shall be paid out of the Central Dental Committee Fund to the Central Dental Committee with the approval of the Commissioners such sums as may be required from time to time to meet the expenses of the Committee.

SCHEDULE.

Method of calculating the amount to be debited each year to the Dental Benefit Account of each Approved Society administering Dental Benefit.

(1) For the purposes of this Schedule, the amount to be debited shall be such sum as the Commission determine not exceeding two and a half per cent. of the annual amount available for providing Dental Benefit.

(2) The "amount available" shall be one-fifth of the amount, allocated by the Society and sanctioned by the Commission, for the provision of Dental Benefit.

Provided that, during the half year beginning 1st July, 1928, and during the half years at the beginning and end of any additional benefit quinquennium, the "amount available" shall be one-tenth of the amount referred to in the preceding paragraph of this sub-section of this Schedule.

Provided also that where it has been found necessary to amend the Scheme of additional benefits by transfers from the amounts available for other additional benefits or by a reduction of the amount to be applied to Dental Benefit, the amount to be debited during the year or years of operation of the altered amount shall be calculated on the adjusted amounts sanctioned by the Commission as available for the provision of Dental Benefit.

Given under the Official Seal of the Irish Insurance Commissioners this 13th day of May, in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine.

JOHN HOULIHAN.

Secretary to the Irish Insurance Commissioners.