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AN BELLE LEASA SHOISIALAIGH, 1949.

SOCIAL WELFARE BILL, 1949.

Mar a leasaiodh i gCoiste.

A* amended in Committee.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

PART I.

* Preliminary and General.

Section.

1.

Short title and collective citation.

2.

Interpretation.

3.

Expenses.

4.

Commencement of Part II.

\ PART n. Dissolution of Cumann an Arachais NAisi^nta ar ShlAinte.

6.

Dissolution of the Society.

6.

Extension of certain provisions.

7.

Transfer of officers and employees of the Society.

8.
8.

Termination of pension scheme and pension fund.

9.

Transfer of stocks, shares and securities of the Society.

10.

Transfer of other property of the Society.

11.

Transfer of liabilities of the Society.

12.

Cesser of Reserve Fund.

13.

Cesser of Guarantee Fund.

14.

Investment of surplus sums in the Fund.

15.

Amendment of section 3 of the Act of 1911 and section 17 of National Health Insurance Act, 1947.

16.
16.

Contributions (representing costs of administration) from * Fund to expenses of administration of the Acts and this Act.

17.

Contributions (representing appropriations) from Fund to expenses of administration of the Acts and this Act.

18.

General power to Minister.

19.

Repeal of section 2 of National Health Insurance Act, 1942.

20.

Modification and application of enactments.

[No.

44o of 1949.]

PART III.

Miscellaneous.

Section.

21.

Payments from Fund for acquisition of land, etc.

22.
22.

Restriction on increase of remuneration, etc.

23.

Dissolution of committee of management.

24.

Adjustments in funds and accounts.

25.

Directions with respect to certain requirements.

26.

Amendment of section 81 of Act of 1911 and section 16 of National Health Insurance and Widows' and Orphans’ Pensions Act, 1936.

27.

Amendment of section 17 of National Health Insurance Act, 1947.

* 28.

Repeal.

AN BILLE LEASA SHOISIALAIGH, 1949.

SOCIAL WELFARE BILL, 1949. .


BILL entitled 5 AN ACT TO DISSOLVE CUMANN AN ARACHAIS NAISIUNTA AR SHLAINTE AND TRANSFER ITS FUNCTIONS TO THE MINISTER FOR SOCIAL WEL­ FARE, TO MAKE PROVISION WITH RESPECT TO MATTERS CONSEQUENTIAL ON OR CONNECTED 10 WITH THE DISSOLUTION AND TRANSFER AND WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS AND OTHERWISE TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACTS, 1911 TO 1948.

15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS PART I.

Preliminary and General.


1._(1) This Act may be cited as the Social Welfare Act, 1950. short title and collective citation.

(2) The Acts and this Act may be cited together as the National 20 Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1950.

2.—(1) In this Act— Interpretation- the expression “ the Acts ” means the National Health Insurance Acts.

Acts, 1911 to 1948; the expression “ the Act of 1911 ” means the National Insurance Act of 1911.
25 Act, 1911; the expression “ the committee of management ” means the com- committee of managwnent.

mittee of management of the Society; the word “ functions ” includes powers and duties; functions.

the expression “ the Fund ” means the Irish National Health Fund.

30 Insurance Fund; the expression “ the Guarantee Fund ” means the guarantee fund Guarantee Fund, set up for the purposes of section 26 of the Act of 1911; the expression ** the Minister ,J means the Minister for Social Minister.
11 Welfare; 85 the expression “ the pension fund ” means the pension fund pension fund, under the pension scheme; 3 pension scheme.

the expression “ the pension scheme ” means the pension scheme established consequent on the report made pursuant to paragraph (d) of section 10 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1933 (No.

13 of 1933); Reserve Fund.

the expression “ the Reserve Fund ” means the National Health o Insurance Reserve Fund; Society.
the expression “ the Society ’ ’ means Cumann an Arachais Naisiunta ar Shlainte; transfer day.

the expression “ the transfer day ” has the meaning assigned to it in section 4.

10 (2) A reference in this Act to performance of functions includes, as respects powers, a reference to exercise of powers.
(3) In this Act, a reference to disposal includes, in relation to land or premises, a reference to the giving of a lease, letting or grant and a reference to acquisition includes, in relation to lands or pre- 15 mises, a reference to the taking of a lease, letting or grant.

(4) This Act shall be construed as one with the Acts.

Expenses.
Expenses.

3.—The expenses incurred by the Minister in the administration of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

20 Commencement of Part 11.

4.—(1) Part II of this Act shall come into operation on such day (in this Act referred to as the transfer day) as may be appointed in that behalf by the Minister by order.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section— (a) an intimation referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (5) 25 of section 7 of this Act may be given to the Minister before Part II of this Act comes into operation, and (b) orders may be made under section 20 of this Act before Part II of this Act comes into operation, but any order so made shall be so framed as to come into operation on 30 or after the coming into operation of the said Part II.

PART II.
PART II.

Dissolution of Cumann an Akachais NAisi<jnta ar Shlainte.

Dissolution of the Society.

5.

—(1) The Society shall, by virtue of this subsection, be dis­ solved and cease to exist.

35 (2) The functions which the Society had immediately before the transfer day are hereby transferred to the Minister and shall be performed by him.

(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the rights or obligations under the Acts of insured persons or of employers.

Extension of certain provisions.

6.


—The provisions of or made under the Acts which would, if this part of this Act had not come into operation, apply only to insured persons being members of the Society shall apply to all insured persons.
4 7.—(1) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, where a person Transfer of was, immediately before the transfer day, an officer or employee o®0®” of the Society, such person is hereby, notwithstanding anything society66* contained in any other enactment, appointed to a situation in the 5 civil service of the Government, and for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1947, he shall be deemed to have been paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas throughout his service under the Society and his previous service (if any) under any approved society.
10 (2) Where a person who is appointed to a situation in the civil service of the Government by virtue of subsection (1) of this section was, immediately before the transfer day, a member of the pension fund, such situation shall be a permanent situation and such of his service under the Society and of his previous 15 service (if any) under any approved society as, but for this Part of this Act, would be reckonable as pensionable service for the purposes of the pension scheme shall be treated as established service for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1947.
20 25 30 35 (3) Where a person who is appointed by virtue of subsection (1) of this section to a situation in the civil service of the Government was, immediately before the transfer day, serving a period of pro­ bation on the satisfactory completion of which he would have become a member of the pension fund— (a) his service on and after the transfer day shall be reckon­ able towards completion of the period of probation, and (6) on completion of the period of probation and if then deemed satisfactory by the Minister— (i) he shall hereby, notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment, be appointed to a per­ manent situation in the civil service of the Govern­ ment, and (ii) any service rendered during the period of probation, which, but for this Part of this Act, would have been treated as pensionable service for the purposes of the pension scheme, shall be treated as estab­ lished service for the purposes of the Superannua­ tion Acts, 1834 to 1947.
(4) In any application of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1947, 40 to a female person to whom subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section applies, any provisions of those Acts applicable to her on account of her being a female person shall not apply to her and, in lieu thereof, the corresponding provisions of those Acts applicable to male persons shall apply to her.
45 (5) The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to— (а) a person who has intimated to the Minister in writing that he elects that this section shall not apply to him, or (б) a person whose office or employment is professional or technical.

50 8.—(1) The pension scheme and the pension fund shall, by Termination of pension scheme and pension fund.

virtue of this subsection, be terminated and cease to exist.
(2) All property, whether real or personal (including choses-in- action), which, immediately before the transfer day, was vested in the trustees of the pension fund shall, on the transfer day and 55 without any conveyance or assignment, but subject where necessary to transfer in the books of any bank, corporation or company, become vested in the Minister for Finance and shall be paid into, disposed of or held by him for the benefit of the Exchequer.
5 (3) Every existing liability and every contingent liability of the pension fund shall, on the transfer day, become a liability of the Minister for Finance and shall be discharged by him out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.
(4) All property vested in the Minister for Finance by subsection 6 (2) of this section, which, on the transfer day, is standing in the books of any bank, corporation or company in the names of the trustees of the pension fund shall, upon the request of the Minister for Finance, be transferred in such books into the name of that Minister.
(5) Every chose-in-action vested in the Minister for Finance by subsection (2) of this section may be sued upon, recovered or en­ forced by that Minister in his own name, and it shall not be neces­ sary for him to give notice to the person bound by such chose-in- action of the vesting effected by this section.

10 If (6) Where— (а) any general increase of remuneration was granted to the officers and employees of the Society after the 31st day of March, 1949, and before the transfer day.
and (б) the subvention appropriate to that increase has not been 20 paid into the pension fund before the transfer day, there shall be paid to the Minister for Finance out of the Fund such amount as that Minister, after consultation with the Mini­ ster, fixes as the amount equivalent to the said subvention and, on such amount being so paid, it shall be paid into, disposed of 35 or held by the Minister for Finance for the benefit of the Exchequer.
(7) In this section— the expression “ existing liability ” means, in relation to the pension fund, any sum which, immediately before the transfer 30 day, stood due and payable out of that fund; the expression “ contingent liability ” means, in relation to the pension fund, any sum, which, but for this Part of this Act, would, on or after the transfer day, become due and payable out of that fund on foot of a periodical allowance which was granted 35 before the transfer day.
9.—(1) All stocks, shares and securities which, immediately before the transfer day, were held by the trustees of the Society or by the Minister on behalf of the Society under paragraph (bj ' of subsection (1) of section 56 of the Act of 1911, as amended 40 by subsection (4) of section 5 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1920, shall, on the transfer day and without any assignment, but subject where necessary to transfer in the books of any bank, corporation or company, become vested in the Minister for Fin­ ance to be held by him on behalf of the Fund.
45 (2) Stocks, shares or securities vested in the Minister for Fin­ ance by this section which, on the transfer day, are standing in the books of any bank, company or corporation in the name of the trustees of the Society or in the name of the Minister shall, upon the request of the Minister for Finance, be transferred in 60 such books into the name of the Minister for Finance.

Transfer of stocks, shares and securities of the Society.

Transfer of other property of the Society.
10.—(1) Excepting the stocks, shares and securities specified in section 9 of this Act, ajl property, whether real or personal (includ­ ing choses-in-action), which immediately before the transfer day, was vested in the Society in its own name or vested in the trustees 55 of the Society shall, on the transfer day and without any con­ veyance or assignment, but subject where necessary to transfer in the books of any bank, become vested in the Minister to be held by him on behalf of the Fund.
6 (2) Moneys vested in the Minister by this section which, on the transfer day, are standing in the books of any bank in the name of the Society or in the name of the trustees of the Society shall, upon the request of the Minister, be transferred in such books into the 5 name of the Minister.
(3) Every chose-in-action vested in the Minister by this section may be sued upon, recovered or enforced by the Minister in his own name, and it shall not be necessary for him to give notice to the person bound by such chose-in-action of the vesting effected by 10 this section.

(4) The Minister may dispose of any property which is vested in him by this section and any moneys which he receives in respect of any such disposal shall be paid into the Fund.
11.—Every debt and other liability of the Society which existed Transfer of immediately before the transfer day shall on that day become and liabilities of the be a debt or liability of the Minister and shall be discharged by him S0016^- out of the Fund.

12.—(1) The Reserve Fund shall, by virtue of this subsection, cesser of cease to exist.

Reserve Fund.
Reserve Fund.

20 (2) All sums (including sums represented by stocks, shares or securities) which, immediately before the transfer day, were standing to the credit of the Reserve Fund shall, on the transfer day, be carried to the credit of the Fund and shall form part thereof.

25 13.—(1) The Guarantee Fund shall, by virtue of this sub- Ce«ser of section, cease to exist.

Guarantee Fund.
Guarantee Fund.

(2) All sums (including sums represented by stocks, shares or securities) which, immediately before the transfer day were standing to the credit of the Guarantee Fund shall, on the trans- 80 fer day, be carried to the credit of the Fund and shall form part thereof.
14.—Notwithstanding any other provision of the Acts, all sums investment of standing to the credit of the Fund and not required to meet surplus sums current expenditure shall be paid over to the Minister for “ the Fund- 35 Finance and retained by him until they are so required, and while such moneys are retained by the Minister for Finance, they shall be invested by him, in accordance with regulations made by him, in any securities in which trustees are for the time being by law empowered to invest trust funds or in any of the stocks, funds 40 and securities which are for the time being authorised by law as investments for Post Office Savings Bank funds.
15.—In the case of the financial year in which the transfer day occurs and every subsequent financial year, the amount expended on the administration of benefits under the Acts shall, for the purposes of section 3 of the Act of 1911 and section 17 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1947 (No.

9 of 1947), be deemed to be the aggregate of— Amendment of Section 3 of Act of 1911 and section 17 of National Health Insurance Act, 1947.
45 (а) the sum of two hundred and fifteen thousand pounds, and (б) the sum paid out of the Medical Certification Fund in the financial year in question.

7 Contributions (representing costs of administration) from Fund to expenses of administration of the Acts and this Act.

16.
16.

—(1) In every financial year, a sum (representing the costs of administration formerly borne by the Society) of two hundred and fifteen thousand pounds shall be paid out of the Fund and appropriated in aid of the moneys provided by the Oireachtas for expenses of the administration of the Acts and this Act.
5 (2) If this Part of this Act commences on a day which is not the first day of the financial year then current, the reference to the sum of two hundred and fifteen thousand pounds in subsection (I) of this section shall, as respects that financial year, be construed as a reference to the sum bearing the same proportion to two hundred 10 and fifteen thousand pounds as the part of that financial year after such commencement bears to a complete year.
(3) The amounts appropriated pursuant to this section shall discharge any recurring liabilities, arising on or after the transfer day on account of subsection (2) of section 8 of this Act, of the 15 Minister to the Minister for Finance.

Contributions (representing appropriations) from Fund to expenses of administration of the Acts and this Act.

17.
17.

—In the case of the financial year in which the transfer day occurs and every subsequent financial year, in lieu of making the appropriation required by section 7 of the National Health Insur­ ance Act, 1942 (No.

5 of 1942), a sum of fifteen thousand pounds 20 shall be paid out of the Fund and appropriated in aid of the moneys provided by the Oireachtas for the expenses of administra­ tion of the Acts and this Act.

General power to Minister.

18.


—The Minister may do all such things as he considers necessary or expedient for the purpose of winding up the affairs of 25 the Society.

Repeal of section 2 of National Health Insurance Act, 1942.

19.

—(1) Section 2 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1942 (No.

5 of 1942), is hereby repealed.

(2) In subsection (4) of section 3 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1942 (No.
5 of 1942), for the words “ the amount 30 determined by the Minister under this section in relation to such year ” there shall be substituted the words “ such amount (not being less, in the case of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1951, and of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1952, than three hundred thousand pounds) as may be fixed with respect to 35 the year in question by the Minister for Social Welfare with the consent of the Minister for Finance ”.
Modification and application of enactments.

20.

—(1) Every provision of or made under the Acts shall, sub­ ject- to any order under subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section, have effect with such modifications and adaptations as may 40 be necessary for giving effect to this Part of this Act.
(2) The Minister may by order make, in respect of any provision of or made under the Acts, such modifications and adaptations as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for giving effect to this Part of this Act.
45 (3) The Minister may by order make such applications (whether with or without modifications) to National Health Insurance of any provisions of or made under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1948, or the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pensions Acts, 1935 to 1948, as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for 50 giving effect to this Part of this Act and any provisions so applied shall have effect notwithstanding any provisions of or made under the Acts (4) Every order under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if 55 either such House, within the next twenty-one days on which it sits after the order is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling the order, the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
8 (5) An order under this section which will affect accounts or moneys of the Society or of the Fund shall be subject to the sanction of the Minister for Finance.

5 PART III.

Miscellaneous.


21.—(1) Payments may be made out of the Fund in respect of Payments from expenditure by the Minister on the acquisition of lands, premises, Funl^a^rn of furniture or equipment or the construction or reconstruction of : < premises, and any such lands, premises, furniture or equipment shall * m 10 be held by the Minister on behalf of the Fund.
(2) A payment shall not be made under subsection (1) of this section on or after the 1st day of July, 1954, save with the consent of the Minister for Finance.

(3) There shall be an investment return in respect of payments 15 made out of the Fund under subsection (1) of this section and such return shall be in the form of contributions to the Fund in respect of the payments made out of the Fund.
For the purposes of this subsection, the payments made out of the Fund under subsection (1) of this section shall, on the former 20 staff of the Society being transferred to any premises acquired pur­ suant to that subsection, be regarded as being reduced by the value (as agreed upon between the Minister and the Minister for Finance) of the part of those premises that are occupied by the former staff of the Society.
25 (4) The contributions to be made under subsection (3) of this section shall be at rates to be agreed upon from time to time between the Minister and the Minister for Finance and shall be made into the Fund out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

(5) The Minister may dispose of any lands, premises, furniture 30 or equipment which he has acquired, constructed or reconstructed under this section and any moneys which he receives in respect of any such disposal shall be paid into the Fund.
(6) A disposal shall not be effected under subsection (5) of this section on or after the 1st day of July, 1954, save with the con- 35 sent of the Minister for Finance.
(7) In dealing at any time before the 1st day of July, 1954, with any matter arising out of any acquisition, construction or reconstruction pursuant to subsection (1) of this section or aris­ ing out of any disposal pursuant to subsection (5) of this section, 40 it shall not be obligatory on the Minister to refer to any other Minister or obtain the consent or sanction of any other Minister.

(8) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1949.
22.—(1) It shall not be lawful for the committee of manage- Restriction oa 45 ment without the consent of the Minister to pay to any person, increase of who, on the 1st day of January, 1950, was an officer or employee remua9r*t,on' ®tc*' of the Society, remuneration in respect of any period subsequent to the passing of this Act at a rate greater than the rate of remuneration of such person on the 1st day of January, 1950.
50 (2) It shall not be lawful for the committee of management without the consent of the Minister to pay to any person who, after the 1st day of January, 1950, and before the passing of this Act, became an officer or employee of the Society, remuneration 55 in respect of any period subsequent to the passing of this Act at a rate greater than the rate of remuneration of a similar officer or employee of the Society on the 1st day of January, 1950.
9: (3) It shall not be lawful for the committee of management without the consent of the Minister to fix or alter the remunera­ tion of any person becoming an officer or employee of the Society after the passing of this Act.

(4) Where an officer or employee of the Society has remuneration 5 comprising a scale of annual increments, nothing in this section shall restrict the grant in accordance with the scale of any of the increments.

DiasolatMa of committee of management.


23.—(1) The Minister may, at any time before the transfer day, by order dissolve the committee of management.

(2) Where an order has been made under subsection (1) of this section, the Minister may from time to time nominate a person to be the nominated person for the purposes of this section.

(3) The Minister may revoke a nomination under subsection (2) of this section.
(4) During the period between the commencement of an order under subsection (1) of this section and the transfer day— 10 15 (а) where there is a nominated person for the purposes of this section, the functions of the committee of management shall be performed by that person, 20 (б) where there is not a nominated person for the purposes of this section, those functions shall be performed by the Minister.
(5) A reference in any provision of or made under the Acts to the committee of management shall, as respects the doing or not 25 doing of, or dealing with, any act, matter or thing during the period between the commencement of an order under subsection (1) of this section and the transfer day, have effect as a reference to the nominated person for the purposes of this section or the Minister (as may be appropriate).

30 Adjustments in funds and accounts.


24.—(1) The Minister may make such adjustments in the funds and accounts relating to National Health Insurance under his control as he considers necessary or expedient consequent on the pending dissolution of the Society or, after the dissolution of the Society, consequent on such dissolution.

35 (2) An adjustment under subsection (1) of this section shall be subject to the sanction of the Minister for Finance.
(3) The Minister for Finance may make such adjustments in the funds and accounts relating to National Health Insurance under his control as he considers necessary or expedient conse- 40 quent on the pending dissolution of the Society or, after the dis­ solution of the Society, consequent on such dissolution.
Direction* with respect to pertain requ u'proprrtf 25.—(1) Where the Minister directs that, in view of the pend­ ing dissolution of the Society or, after the dissolution of the Society, in view of such dissolution, it is not necessary or is not 45 expedient to carry out a specified requirement of any provision of or made under the Acts, the requirement shall not be carried out.
(2) Where the Minister directs that, in view of the pending dis­ solution of the Society or, after the dissolution of the Society, 50 in view of such dissolution, it is necessary or is expedient that a specified requirement of any provision of or made under the Acts shall be carried out subject to specified modifications, the require­ ment shall be carried out subject to those modifications.

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(3) A direction under this section relating to a requirement with respect to accounts or moneys of the Society or of the Fund shall be subject to the sanction of the Minister for Finance.

(4) In this section, the word “ requirement ” includes a require- 5 ment in relation to a period before, or partly before and partly after, the passing of this Act.
26.—(1) This section applies to the following enactments: (а) subsections (10) and (11) of section 81 of the Act of 1911 as amended by subsection (2) of section 16 of the Social Welfare Act, 1948 (No.

17 of 1948), and (б) paragraph (d) of section 16 of the National Health Insur­ ance and Widows’ and Orphans’ Pensions Act, 1936 (No.

12 of 1936).

Amendment of section 81 of Act of 1911 and section 16 of National Health Insurance and Widows’ and Orphans’ Pensions Act.

1936.
1936.

(2) In the case of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 15 1950, and of every subsequent year, the amount to be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas into the Fund pursuant to the enactments to which this section applies shall, in lieu of being the amount appropriate in accordance with those enactments, be forty- four thousand pounds.
20 (3) The amounts paid before the passing of this Act out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas into the Fund in respect of the year which ended on the 31st day of December, 1948, and in respect of the year which ended on the 31st day of December, 1949, pur­ suant to the enactments to which this section applies shall be deemed 25 to be the amounts due and payable up to the passing of this Act in accordance with those enactments in respect of those years, and, accordingly, no adjustments shall fall to be made with respect to those amounts.
30 27—(l) Section 17 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1947 (No.

9 of 1947), is hereby amended by the deletion in subsection (2) of the words “ during that financial year ”, (2) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the passing of the National Health Insurance Act, 1947.

Amendment of section 17 of National Health Insurance Act.

1947.

28.—(1) The Scottish Insurance Companies ( Superannuation Repeal.

35 Fund) Order, Confirmation Act, 1914, is hereby repealed.
(2) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 5th day of July, 1948.

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I > r,* AN BILLE LEASA SHOISIALAIGH, 1949.

SOCIAL WELFARE BILL, 1949. .
!» • ;ru () .................... i BILLE (war a leasaiodh i gCoiste) dd ngairmtear BILL (as amended in Committee) entitled Aoht do dhiscaoileadh Cumann an Arachais Naisiunta ar Shl&inte agus d’aistriu a fheidh- meanna chun an Aire Leasa Shoisialaigh, do dheanamh socruithe i dtaobh nithe a leanas as an dlscaoileadh agus an aistriu no a bhain- eas leo sin agus i dtaobh nithe airithe eile agus do dheanamh leasuithe agus leathnuithe ar shlite eile ar na hAchta um rachas Slainte Naisiunta, 1911 to 1948.
An Act to dissolve Cumann an Arachais Naisiunta ar Shlainte and transfer its functions to the Minister for Social Welfare, to make provision with respect to matters consequential on or connected with the dissolution and transfer and with respect to certain other matters and otherwise to amend and extend the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1948.

An tAire Leasa Shoisialaigh a thug is teach.

Introduced by the Minister for Social Welfare.

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