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saorstAt eireann.

BILLE UM ARACHAS SLAINTE NAISIUNTA, 1924.

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL, 1924.

Mar do ritheadh ag go Thigh an Oireachtais.

As passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Section.

1.

Establishment of Medical Certification Ftind.

2.

Method of providing funds for Medical Certification Fund.

3.

Certain sums to be transferred from Stamps Sales Account to Medical Certification Fund.

4.

Sums to be paid out of the Medical Certification Fund.

5.
5.

Application of Part IV of the National Health Insurance Act.

1928.

6.

Extension of section 2 i of National Health Insuiaiu • Act, 1923.

7.

Commencement, duration, short title, and construction.

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22a of '24.1 SAORSTAT EIREANN.

{rjr BILLE UM ARACHAS SLAINTE NAISIUNTA, 1924.

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL, 1924.

\ BILL Entitled 5 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A MEDICAL CERTIFICATION ' FUND UNDER THE CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF THE IRISH INSURANCE COMMISSIONERS.
AND FOR THAT PURPOSE AND ALSO FOR OTHER PUR­ POSES TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE NATIONAL 10 HEALTH INSURANCE ACTS.

1911 to 1923.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTAT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:— Establishment of 1.

There shall be established under the control and manage- raent of the Irish Insurance Commissioners, a fund to be known 15 as the Medical Certification Fund.

Method of providing funds for Medical Certification Fund.
2.—( 1) There shall be debited— (a) to the benefit fund of every approved society, the sum of tenpence in respect of each member (not being a serving soldier) of that approved societv on and ‘ ’ ‘ b) to the Military Forces (International Arrange­ ments) Insurance Fund, the stun of tenpence in respect of each member (not being a serving soldier) of that fund, and 25 (c) to the Deposit Contributors’ Fund, the sum of ten- pence in respect of each member of that fund, and [‘1) to the Exempt Persons’ Fund, the sum of fivepence *, in respect of each member of that fund.
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- The several sums directed by the foregoing sub-section to 30 be debited to the benefit fund of every approved society, the Military Forces (International Arrangements) Fund, the Deposit Contributors Fund, and the Exempt Persons’ Fund respectively, shall be credited to the Medical Certification Fund.
(3) For the purpose of calculating the total sum to be debited 35 to any fund under this section, the total number of members (not being serving soldiers) of a society or fund shall be calculated in such hianner as the Irish Insurance Commissioners shall direct.

^ 3,~a) Object to the limitation hereinafter prescribed, such part as !he tInsurance Commissioners shall direct of the from Stamp6 Sales Account svll,iS vv hich under Section 29 of the National Health Insurance Act.
1918 (which provides for the disposal of sums unclaimed in to Medical Certification the Stamps Sales Account) would be carried to the National Health Insurance Central Fund shall, instead of being so carried be credited to the Medieal Certification Fund.

(2) The tot,al amount to be credited to the Medical Certification bund under this section shall not exceed such sum as.
together with the sums to be credited to the said Fund under the foregoing provisions of this Act, shall be sufficient to meet the sums directed by this Act to be paid out of the Medical Certification Fund.

4.
—Therq shall be paid out of the Medical Certification Fund— (a) such sums in respect of the year 1924 as the Irish Insurance Commissioners with the approval of the Minister ior Finance may determine to be payable to medical practitioners for medical certification, and (b) to each approved society such sum calculated at a rate not exceeding one penny and one haif-penny per annum in respect of each member (not being a serving soldier) of the society as may be required to meet any sums sanctioned by the Minister for Finance for payment in the year 1924 to that approved society in respect of the cost of obtaining second medical opinions.
5 10 Sums to be paid out of the Medical Certification Fund.

5.

—Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in 15 sub-section (1) of section 25 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1923 (No.

20 of 1923), Part IV of that Act shall apply and be deemed always to have applied to soldiers enlisted after the 1st day of May, 1923, for a period exceeding twelve months as well as to the soldiers mentioned in the said sub-section.

Application of Part IV of the National Health Insurance Act, 1923.
20 6.—Section 27 (which relates to the application of sums unclaimed in the Stamps Sales Account) of the National Health • Insurance Act, 1923 (No.

20 of 1923), shall continue in-force until the 31st day of December, 1925.

7.—(1) This Act shall be deemed to* have come into operation 25 on and shall be in force and have effect as on and from the 1st day of January, 1924.
(2) This Act may be cited as the National Health Insurance Act, 1924, and shall be construed as one with the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1923.

30 (3) The National Health Insurance Acts.

1911 to 1923. and this Act may be cited together as the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1924.

Extension of section 27 of National Health Insurance Act, 1923.

Commencement, duration, short title, and construction.

Saorstat Eireann.
Saorstat Eireann.

Saorstat Eireann ..................„■_______ BILLE UM ARACEUS SLAINTE NAISIUNTA, 1924. ii i NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL, 1924.

BILL.E dd ngairmtear BILL Acht chun ciste liaigh-dheimhniuchain do bhunu fe churam agus fe bhainisti Coimisineiri Arachais na hEireann agus ehun na hAchtanna um Araehas Slainte Naisiunta, 1911 go 1923. do leasu agus do leathanti chm na crlcbe sin agus fos chun cricheanna eile.

An Act to establish a medical certification fur.


under the control and management of the IrL Insurance Commissioners and for that purpo> and also for other purposes to amend and e> tend the National Health Insurance Acts.

191 to 1923.

Rithte ag dkd Thigh an Oireachtais, 18adh Ml, 1924.

Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas.

18tfi July, 1924. i BAILE ATHA CLIATH : FOILLSITHE AG OIFIG AN tSOLATHAIR.
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