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4. AMENDMENT OF S. 7 OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT.—(1) Subsection (1) of section seven of the principal Act (which provides for the notification of changes of address) shall have effect as if for the words "within twenty-eight days" there were substituted the words "within fourteen days," and for the purpose of the said subsection any person registered under the principal Act at the date of the commencement of this Act whose place of residence at that date does not correspond with his place of residence as specified in his certificate of registration shall be deemed to have changed his place of residence as on that date.

(2) Subsection (2) of the said section seven (which provides for the registration of unregistered persons arriving in the United Kingdom) shall have effect as if for the words "within twenty-eight days" there were substituted the words "within fourteen days," and for the purpose of the said subsection any person who arrived in the United Kingdom before the date of the commencement of this Act, and who on or before that date had not given notice of arrival in accordance with the provisions of the said subsection, shall be deemed to have arrived in the United Kingdom as on that date.

5. DUTY OF EMPLOYER TO REQUIRE PRODUCTION OF REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES. (1) Any person who on the fifteenth day of February nineteen hundred and eighteen has in his employment any male person between the ages of fifteen and sixty-five who was required to register himself under the principal Act or is liable by virtue of this Act so to register himself, or on or after that date takes into his employment any such male person shall, within seven days after that date, or after taking the male person into his employment, as the case may be, require him to produce his certificate of registration, and if any such male person does not produce his certificate of registration to the employer within a period of seven days after being so required, the employer shall on the expiration of the said period send to the local registration authority in whose district that person is resident notice that that person has so failed to produce his certificate of registration.

(2) If any person taking into or having in his employment any such male person as aforesaid fails to comply with the requirements of this section he shall for each offence be liable, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

6. POWER OF CONSTABLES, &C., TO REQUIRE PRODUCTION OF REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES. (1) Every male person who was required to register himself under the principal Act or who is liable by virtue of this Act so to register himself shall(a) If notice requiring the production of his certificate of registration has been given in accordance with the provisions of this section, produce his certificate to the person, and at the time and place, specified by the notice; and (b) whether any such notice has been given or not, on demand by any police constable, or any person duly authorised in that behalf by the DirectorGeneral of National Service, either produce his certificate of registration or give particulars as to his name, address, age, and occupation.

(2) Any police constable or other person authorised to demand the production of certificates may, for the purpose of the performance of his duties under this section, at any reasonable time enter any factory, workshop, or business premises and may inspect and take-copies of any certificates produced to him.

(3) Any notice for the purpose of this section may be given by any person authorised in that behalf by the Director-General of National Service, and either by delivering it to the person who is to be required to produce his certificate, or by leaving it at that person's place of residence, or by publishing it or causing it to be published at the place where that person is employed in such a manner as is reasonably calculated to bring it to his knowledge, and any such notice may specify a time (not being less than three days from the date of the notice), and a place (not being other than the residence or place of employment of the holder of the certificate), at which the certificate of registration is to be produced.

(4) If any person over the age of eighteen years fails to comply with the provisions of this section or gives particulars which are false in any respect, or obstructs any person in the exercise of his powers under this section, he shall be liable on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

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7. PROVISIONS AS TO FEMALES.-(1) It shall be lawful for His Majesty by Order in Council to extend to female persons any of the provisions of this Act applicable only to male persons, other than the provision requiring a person on demand by a police constable or any other duly authorised person either to produce his certificate of registration or give particulars, subject to such modifications in dates as may be fixed by the Order.

(2) Every Order in Council made under this section shall be laid before each House of Parliament forthwith, and if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat next after the order is laid before it praying that the order may be annulled, His Majesty in Council may annul the order and it shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything done thereunder.

8. DUTIES OF LOCAL REGISTRATION AUTHORITIES.-It shall be the duty of every local registration authority to take all such steps as are necessary for securing the due registration of all persons within their district required by this Act to cause themselves to be registered under the principal Act, and for securing the performance by all persons of their duties under this Act.

9. CERTAIN DUTIES TO BE CONTINUING DUTIES.-The duty of a person to cause himself to be registered under the principal Act or when so registered to notify any change of his profession or occupation or of his place of residence or the loss of his certificate of registration shall be a continuing duty, and shall not be deemed to be extinguished by reason only that he has failed so to do before the appointed date or within the time allowed for the purpose and has thereby incurred a penalty.

10. CONSENT OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF NATIONAL SERVICE TO PROSECUTIONS AND PROVISION AS TO CONTINUING OFFENCES.-(1) A prosecution for an offence under this Act or under the principal Act shall not be instituted in England except with the consent of the Director-General of National Service.

(2) Subsection (3) of section thirteen of the principal Act shall have effect as if there were inserted at the end thereof the words "after conviction."

11. SAVING FOR PERSONS OVER SIXTY-FIVE. Nothing in this Act or the principal Act shall impose any obligation on any person being over the age of sixty-five years to cause himself to be registered, or to notify any change of his profession or occupation or of his place of residence or the loss of his certificate of registration.

12. SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION, AND COMMENCEMENT.—(1) This Act may be cited as the National Registration (Amendment) Act 1918, and shall be construed and have effect as if it were part of the principal Act, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the National Registration Acts 1915 and 1918.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on the twenty-first day after the passing thereof.

7. Qualifications for becoming, and rate of contribution payable by, voluntary contributors. 8. Exemption for persons intermittently employed.

9. Payment of contributions payable in respect of low-wage earners.

10. Rate of employer's contribution in case of employee holding certificate of exemption.

11. Conditions for receipt of maternity benefit.

12. Amendments with respect to sickness benefit.

13. Position of insured persons ceasing to be employed or to pay contributions as voluntary contributors.

14. Membership of approved societies.

15. Transfer values of persons lapsing from insurance.

16. Transfer from approved society to deposit insurance and vice versâ.

17. Administration accounts and expenses, and raising of levies.

18. Arrears of contributions.

19. Amendment of s. 11 of principal Act.

20. Amendment of law with respect to contributors who are inmates of hospitals, &c.

21. Provisions as to transfer from a society in case of deficiency.

22. Special provisions with respect to married women.

23. Repeal of s. 45 of principal Act.

24. Amendment of s. 46 of principal Act.

25. Application of National Health Insurance Acts to men of the Air Force.

26. Repeal of s. 47 of principal Act.

27. Provisions as to the Mercantile Marine.

28. Provisions with respect to teachers.

29. Disposal of sums unclaimed in stamp sales account.

30. Provisions against maladministration.

31. Extension of power to make regulations.

32. Provisions with respect to medical practitioners, &c., of approved societies.

33. Accounts of insurance committees.

34. Default by insurance committee.

35. Repeal of s. 51 of principal Act.

36. Provision with respect to the payment of certain benefits.

37. Disposal of sums forming part of estate of deceased persons.

38. Amendment of s. 63 of principal Act.

39. Amendment of s. 69 of principal Act.

40. Civil proceedings against employer for neglecting to comply with principal Act.

41. Construction of s. 33 of 3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 37.

42. Amendment of s. 34 of 3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 37.

43. Provisions with respect to branches.

44. Amendment of s. 67 of the principal Act in its application to Scotland.

45. Provisions with respect to contributions paid on account of Irish migratory labourers.

46. Application of s. 17 of 3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 37, to variations in rules of societies necessitated by this Act.

47. Extension of 7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 15, to other pensionable persons.

48. Short title, commencement, construction, and repeal.

SCHEDULES.

CHAPTER LXII.

An Act to amend the Acts relating to National Health Insurance.

[6th February 1918.]

BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

PART I.-FINANCIAL PROVISIONS.

1. AMENDMENT OF S. 55 (3) OF PRINCIPAL ACT.-(1) The sum to be retained by the Insurance Commissioners under subsection (3) of section fifty-five of the National Insurance Act 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55) (in this Act referred to as "the principal Act") out of each weekly contribution shall, in the case of an insured person being a woman, be one penny and one-sixth instead of one penny halfpenny.

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(2) The sums retained by the Insurance Commissioners under the said subsection shall, instead of being wholly applied towards discharging the liabilities of the Insurance Commissioners to approved societies in respect of reserve values, be applied in carrying to the Contingencies Fund and the Central Fund hereinafter constituted amounts calculated in accordance with the provisions of the First Schedule to this Act, and the balance only shall be applied in discharging such liabilities as aforesaid and apportioned amongst societies in manner provided by subsection (4) of the said section:

Provided that if at any time it appears to the National Health Insurance Joint Committee that, after taking into account the necessity of creating a proper reserve, the sums standing to the credit of the Central Fund are more than sufficient for the purposes for which that fund is established, the Committee may by regulations provide for decreasing the amounts to be carried to that fund and making a corresponding increase in the amounts to be carried to the Contingencies Fund.

2. WOMEN'S EQUALISATION FUND.-(1) There shall be established under the control of the National Health Insurance Joint Committee a fund to be called the Women's Equalisation Fund and to be applied in assisting approved societies in meeting. their liabilities in respect of the sickness claims of women.

(2) There shall in each year be charged on the Women's Equalisation Fund and distributed among approved societies in manner provided by a scheme to be made by the National Health Insurance Joint Committee, with the approval of the Treasury, such sum, not exceeding eight shillings in respect of each of the total number (calculated in the prescribed manner) of married women who are members of approved societies and who are employed contributors, as may be ascertained in accordance with the said scheme.

(3) Subject as hereinafter provided, there shall in respect of each year be carried to the Women's Equalisation Fund out of moneys provided by Parliament such sum as will suffice to meet the charges thereon:

Provided that the sum to be carried to the Fund in respect of each of the years nineteen hundred and thirteen, nineteen hundred and fourteen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall, instead of being provided as aforesaid, be provided out of the moneys voted by Parliament before the commencement of this Act in aid of the provision of sickness benefit for women, and in so far as the moneys so voted are insufficient to meet the aggregate charges on the fund in respect of these four years shall be provided out of the moneys applicable towards discharging the liabilities of the Insurance Commissioners to approved societies in respect of reserve values.

(4) All sums distributed among societies under this section shall be available for the payment of benefits, and shall, for the purposes of section three of the principal Act, be deemed to have been derived from contributions made in respect of contributorsnotwithstanding that they are derived in whole or in part from moneys provided by Parliament.

3. CONTINGENCIES FUNDS AND VALUATION.-(1) The Insurance Commissioners shall periodically apportion amongst the several societies the sums by this Act directed to be carried to the Contingencies Fund in the case of men in proportion to the number of contributions credited in respect of the members of those societies respectively who are men, and the sums by this Act directed to be carried to the Contingencies Fund in the case of women in proportion to the number of contributions credited in respect of the members of those societies respectively who are women, and the sums so apportioned to any society shall, with the proper proportion of the accumulations of interest on the amount from time to time standing to the credit of the fund, form the contingencies fund of the society, and be available for making good any deficiency of the society or of the branches thereof in manner hereinafter appearing, and no part of any surplus of any society or branch disclosed on a valuation shall be applied towards making good any deficiency in any other society or branch.

(2) If on the valuation of a society without branches a deficiency is disclosed, the sums standing to the credit of the contingencies fund of the society shall be applied towards making good the deficiency; and if no deficiency is so disclosed, or if the sums standing to the credit of the contingencies fund are more than sufficient to

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make good that deficiency, the sums standing to the credit of that fund or the balance thereof shall, subject to the provisions of this section with respect to small societies, be carried to the benefit fund of the society, but any amount so carried shall not be treated for the purposes of section thirty-seven of the principal Act as forming part of any surplus found at that valuation.

In this section the expression "benefit fund" means the fund out of which benefits payable by the society or branch are provided.

(3) If on the valuation of any society with branches a deficiency is disclosed in the case of any one or more branches of the society, the central authority of the society shall apply the sums standing to the credit of the contingencies fund of the society towards making good those deficiencies, except that, if satisfied that any part of a deficiency is due to any maladministration by the branch in question, the central authority may, with the consent of the Insurance Commissioners, refuse so to make good at all or in part that part of the deficiency.

If there are no deficiencies, or if the sums standing to the credit of the contingencies fund are more than sufficient to provide for the total amount of the deficiencies made good under the foregoing provision, the fund or the balance of the fund shall, subject to the provisions of this section relating to small societies, be apportioned amongst the several branches in proportion to the amounts paid into the fund in respect of contributions of members of those branches respectively since the commencement of the principal Act, or since the last valuation, as the case may be, but where there was a deficiency in the case of any branch the amount so paid into the fund in respect of contributions of members of that branch shall for the purpose of this provision be deemed to be reduced by the amount (if any) applied towards making good the deficiency.

The amount so apportioned to any, branch shall be applied and dealt with as follows::

(a) If there was a deficiency in the case of the branch and any part thereof was not discharged out of the contingencies fund of the society as being due to maladministration, the amount shall be applied towards making good that deficiency;

(b) Subject as aforesaid the amount shall be carried to the benefit fund of the branch, but any amount so carried shall not be treated for the purposes of section thirty-seven of the principal Act as forming part of any surplus found at that valuation.

(4) Regulations of the National Health Insurance Joint Committee shall provide, in the case of societies which at the date as at which a valuation is made have not joined an association formed or recognised under this section and have less than one thousand members, for applying pro rata to such extent, not exceeding one half, as may be necessary, any balances of the contingencies funds of those societies not required for making good deficiencies in those societies under the foregoing provisions of this section towards making good pro rata the balances of the deficiencies remaining in the case of other such societies after the application of the contingencies funds of those societies in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section, subject, nevertheless, to the power of the Insurance Commissioners to refuse to allow to be made good either at all or in part any part of any deficiency which in their opinion is due to maladministration:

Provided that the Insurance Commissioners shall exempt from this subsection any society consisting of persons entitled to rights in a superannuation or other provident fund established for the benefit of persons employed by one or more employers, if the employer in addition to the contributions payable by him under Part I. of the principal Act is responsible for the solvency of the fund or for the benefits payable thereout, or is liable to pay a substantial part of, or to make substantial contributions to, or substantially to supplement the benefits payable out of the fund, and this subsection shall not apply to any society so exempted.

(5) The Insurance Commissioners may make regulations providing for the formation within the prescribed time for the purposes of this section of associations with central financial committees, and prescribing the conditions on which, and the time within which, a society shall be entitled or allowed to join, or having joined to secede