No. 212/1944:

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (APPROVED SOCIETIES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, 1944.

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (APPROVED SOCIETIES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, 1944.

(NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE.)

APPROVED SOCIETIES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, 1944.

I, Francis Constantine Ward, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on the said Minister by the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1942, and by virtue of the Local Government and Public Health (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order, 1944, hereby make the following Regulations, that is to say :—

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Amendment Regulations, 1944, and shall be read as one with the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Regulations, 1918 to 1938.

(2) In these Regulations the following expressions shall have the respective meanings hereby assigned to them :—

"the Society" means Cumann an Árachais Náisiúnta ar Shláinte ;

"the first additional benefit period" means the quinquennial period ending on the 31st day of March, 1947.

2. Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (1A) of Article 46 of the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Regulations, 1918 (which paragraph was added to the said Regulations by Article 6 (1) of The National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Amendment Regulations, 1922, and amended by Article 4 of the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Amendment Regulations, 1925) the sum to be debited to the account kept by the Society in relation to the first additional benefit period in respect of any additional benefit and credited to the Administration Account in respect of any one of the years 1942 to 1947 inclusive shall be a sum not exceeding six per cent. of the net amount paid by the Society during that year out of sums available for the provision of that additional benefit.

(Signed) F. C. WARD,

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister

for Local Government and Public Health.

Dated this 23rd day of June, 1944.