14 & 15 GEORGE 5, CHAPTER 10. to be applied in such manner as may be prescribed, there shall be paid forthwith into the Central Fund the sum of one hundred thousand pounds, and the sum so to be paid shall be apportioned between the said Accounts for England, Scotland and Wales respectively in such manner as the National Health Insurance Joint Committee may direct. 3. APPLICATION OF PART OF SUMS UNCLAIMED IN STAMP SALES ACCOUNT TOWARDS CANCELLATION of Arrears.—(1) Such part as the National Health Insurance Joint Committee may direct of the sums which under section twenty-nine of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918, are to be carried to the Central Fund shall, instead of being so carried, be credited to approved societies in accordance with a scheme to be made by the said Committee with the approval of the Treasury, and any sums credited under this section to an approved society shall be applied by the society in such manner as the scheme may provide for the purpose of preventing such members of the society as are in arrears from being or continuing to be suspended from benefit. (2) This section shall be deemed to have had effect as from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-five. 4. PAYMENT OUT OF CENTral Fund for PURPOSE OF HEALTH INSURANCE IN Northern IRELAND.-There shall, out of moneys in the Central Fund representing sums carried to that Fund under section twenty-nine of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918, as in force in Northern Ireland, be paid to the Ministry of Labour for Northern Ireland to be applied for the purposes of national health insurance in Northern Ireland in such way as the Parliament of Northern Ireland may direct, such sums as the National Health Insurance Joint Committee shall determine to be proper to be so paid, having regard to the sums paid out of moneys in the Central Fund under this Act for the purposes of national health insurance in Great Britain. 5. APPLICATION TO SCOTLAND, Ireland and WALES.—(1) This Act shall apply to Scotland, subject to the following modifications, that is to say : (a) the Scottish Board of Health shall be substituted for the Minister of Health: (b) one shilling and tenpence halfpenny shall be substituted for two shillings and twopence three farthings: (c) twopence halfpenny shall be substituted for three-halfpence : (d) such sum, if any, as may be prescribed, not exceeding one penny, shall be substituted for twopence : (e) the Scottish National Health Insurance Fund (Investment) Account shall be substituted for the National Health Insurance Fund (Investment) Account : (f) section one of this Act shall have effect as if there were inserted after the word "benefits" in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) thereof the words and the provision of a medical service for insured persons in such districts of Scotland (other than the Highlands and Islands within the meaning of the Highlands and Islands (Medical Service) Grant Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 26)) as may be determined by the Scottish Board of Health to be necessitous." (2) This Act shall apply to Wales subject to the following modifications, that is to say, two shillings and eightpence farthing shall be substituted for two shillings and twopence three farthings, one penny three farthings shall be substituted for three-halfpence, and the Welsh National Health Insurance Fund (Investment) Account shall be substituted for the National Health Insurance Fund (Investment) Account. (3) This Act shall not (except as therein otherwise expressly provided) apply to Ireland. 6. SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION.-(1) This Act may be cited as the National Health Insurance (Cost of Medical Benefit Act, 1924, and shall be construed as one with the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1922, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1924. NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (MEDICAL BENEFIT) ACT, 1924. (2) This Act shall (save as therein otherwise expressly provided) be deemed to have had effect as from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-six. CHAPTER XI. An Act to amend sections one, sixty-two and sixty-five of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, and for purposes connected therewith. [29th May 1924.] [Preamble.] or 1. QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE OF CHIEF REGISTRAR.-A person who has held the office of Assistant Registrar for not less than five years shall be qualified to be appointed Chief Registrar, and accordingly section one of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 25), shall have effect as if in subsection (4) thereof, after the words of not less than twelve years' standing," there were inserted the words a person who has held the office of Assistant Registrar for not less than five years.' 2. ASSURANCES ON CHILDREN'S LIVES.-(1) Section sixty-two of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896 (which relates to assurances on children), both as originally enacted and as applied to trade unions and industrial assurance companies, shall have effect as if for that section the following section were substituted: A society or branch, whether registered or unregistered, shall not insure or pay on the death of a child under the ages hereinafter specified any sum of money which exceeds or which, when added to any amount payable on the death of that child by any other society or branch or by any trade union or industrial assurance company exceeds, the amounts hereinafter specified; that is to say : (a) In the case of a child under three years of age, six pounds; 66 (2) Section sixty-five of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, shall have effect as if for the words "five years "there were substituted the words three years," and as if for the words ten years there were substituted the words "six years," and as if at the end of subsection (1) thereof there were inserted the words or for the payment in the whole of a sum exceeding fifteen pounds on the death of a child under ten years." 66 (3) Subsection (1) of section four of the Industrial Assurance Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 8), shall be repealed from the words "except that" to the end of the subsection. 3. SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION AND EXTENT.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Friendly Societies Act, 1924, and shall be construed with the Friendly Societies Acts, 1896 and 1908, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Friendly Societies Acts, 1896 to 1924. (2) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland. CHAPTER XII. An Act to extend the period during which contributions under the School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1922, are to be payable. [Preamble.] CHAPTER XIII. An Act to amend the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act, 1922. [Preamble.] [29th May 1924.] [29th May 1924.] 1. EXTENSION OF PERIOD DURING WHICH CONTRIBUTIONS BY OR IN RESPECT OF SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE TO BE PAYABLE.-The Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) 14 & 15 GEORGE 5, CHAPTER 13. "the Act of Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 48) (hereinafter in this Act referred to as 1922 "), shall have effect as though in subsection (1) of section one thereof (which provides that contributions thereunder are to be payable as from the first day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, until the first day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-four) the words "the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, or such earlier date as Parliament may determine," were substituted for the words "the first day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-four." 2. CONTINGENT PAYMENT TO EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) FUND.-The following subsection shall be added to section three of the Act of 1922 : "(2) If in the year commencing the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, or in the year commencing the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, the amount of the sums collected and recovered by the Department in terms of the first section of this Act (after deduction of any contributions returned in terms of any amending scheme framed and approved in pursuance of the immediately preceding section) shall exceed eleven-eightieths of the amount of the sums received by the Board of Education in terms of section one of the School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 42), or any Act amending the same (after deduction of any contributions returned in terms of section two thereof and of any sums paid as compensation in terms of section three thereof), there shall be paid into the Education (Scotland) Fund out of moneys provided by Parliament a sum equal to the amount of such excess. 3. REFERENCES TO S. 1 OF 12 & 13 GEO. 5, c. 48.—In the Act of 1922 and in any amending scheme framed and approved in pursuance of section two thereof, references to section one of the Act of 1922 shall be construed as references to the said section one as amended by this Act. 4. EXTENT, CITATION AND CONSTRUCTION.-(1) This Act shall extend to Scotland only. (2) This Act may be cited as the Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act, 1924, and the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1872 to 1922, and this Act may be cited as the Education (Scotland) Acts, 1872 to 1924, and shall, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, be construed together as one Act. CHAPTER XIV. An Act to make provision for the establishment and working of a system of submarine cables and wireless telegraph stations in the West Indian Islands and British Guiana. [14th July 1924.] CHAPTER XV. An Act to make further provision as to the organisation and conditions of service of the Auxiliary Air Force and Air Force Reserve, and for purposes connected therewith. [14th July 1924.] [Preamble.] 1. CONSTITUTION OF COUNTY JOINT ASSOCIATIONS AND AUXILIARY AIR FORCE ASSOCIATIONS.-The power of His Majesty under section six of the Air Force (Constitution) Act, 1917 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 51) (in this Act referred to as "the principal Act"), to apply by Order in Council to the auxiliary air force or to the officers and men of that force any of the enactments relating to the territorial army or the officers and men of that army, shall be extended so as to include power to apply Part I. of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 9) to the auxiliary air force and to the officers and men of that force and also to the territorial army and to the officers and men of that army with such modifications as may be necessary(1)-(a) to provide for the establishment and constitution of a county joint association under the said Part I., which shall, as respects the county, AUXILIARY AIR FORCE AND AIR FORCE RESERVE ACT, 1924. exercise the powers and perform the duties of an association under the said Part in relation both to the territorial army and to the auxiliary air force, and to provide for the application of the provisions of that Part with respect to the Army Council, to army services and to the territorial army, to the Army Council and Air Council or either of them, to army and air force services or either of them and to the territorial army and the auxiliary air force, or either of them, respectively; (b) to define the relations and responsibilities of any such county joint association to the Army Council and the Air Council respectively; and (2) to provide for the establishment and constitution for any areas which in the opinion of the Air Council cannot suitably be administered through county joint associations constituted under the preceding paragraph, of auxiliary air force associations; and (3) to provide for the termination of county joint associations either generally or in special cases, and on such termination for the establishment of associations constituted under the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907, or of auxiliary air force associations; and (4) to provide for the transfer and adjustment of any powers, duties, assets and liabilities on the establishment or termination of county joint associations. 2. CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF AUXILIARY AIR FORCE.-The aforesaid power of His Majesty under section six of the principal Act shall be extended so as to include power to apply any enactments referred to in that section to the auxiliary air force, or to the officers or men of that force, with such modifications as may be necessary to make it a condition, on the acceptance of a commission as an officer or on the enlistment of a man in the auxiliary air force, that the person so commissioned or enlisted shall enter into an agreement to accept as an obligation the liability (whether or not the army or air force reserve is called out on permanent service) to be called out and to serve within the British Islands in defence of the British Islands against actual or apprehended attack, and to provide accordingly for the application of the provisions of section twenty of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907, with the necessary modifications, to any such man who fails to fulfil such obligations as aforesaid. 3. CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF AIR FORCE RESERVE.-The power of His Majesty under section six of the principal Act to apply by Order in Council to the air force reserve or to the officers and men of the air force reserve any of the enactments relating to the army reserve or to the officers and men of the army reserve shall be extended so as to include power to apply any of those enactments to the air force reserve, or to the officers or men thereof, with such modifications as may be necessary (1) to provide that, notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (1) of section thirty of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907, men may be enlisted into the air force reserve either as reservists or as special reservists, whether or not such men have served in the regular air force; and (2) to make it a condition on the enlistment of a man in the regular air force or the air force reserve after the date of the order, that he shall accept as an obligation the liability during his service in the reserve (whether or not the army or air force reserve is called out on permanent service) to be called out and to serve within the British Islands in defence of the British Islands against actual or apprehended attack, and to provide that any man of the regular air force enlisted before the date of the order who may after that date be transferred to the air force reserve, or any man in the air force reserve at that date, may agree in writing to accept as an obligation such liability as aforesaid; and (3) to provide that a man who is liable to be called out and to serve in the circumstances mentioned in this section shall, when called out for such service be deemed to have been called out on permanent service, and to be subject to the Air Force Act accordingly; and 14 & 15 GEORGE 5, CHAPTER 15. (4) to provide for the enlistment of men into the air force reserve as special reservists with a liability to serve within the limits of the British Islands only. 4. POWER TO MAKE SUPPLEMENTAL MODIFICATIONS.-An Order in Council made in pursuance of any of the foregoing provisions of this Act may make such supplemental and consequential modifications (if any) of the provisions of the Reserve Forces Acts, 1882 to 1907, and the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907, including the provisions as to the service and publication of notices, and contain such supplemental and consequential provisions, as may appear to His Majesty in Council to be necessary or expedient. 5. CALLING OUT FOR SERVICE IN DEFENCE AND TERMINATION OF SUCH SERVICE.(1) It shall be lawful for His Majesty by Order in Council declaring that a case of emergency exists, to order a Secretary of State to give, and when given to revoke or vary, such directions as may seem necessary or proper for calling out to serve within the British Islands in defence of the British Islands against actual or apprehended attack all or any of the officers and men of the auxiliary air force or air force reserve who in pursuance of this Act are liable to be called out and to serve as aforesaid. (2) All directions given in pursuance of such order shall be obeyed as if enacted in this Act and every officer and man for the time being called out by such directions shall attend at the place and time fixed by those directions. (3) It shall be lawful for His Majesty by Order in Council to declare that a case of emergency no longer exists, and thereupon the Secretary of State shall give such directions as may seem necessary or proper for terminating the service under this section of the officers and men of the auxiliary air force and air force reserve. (4) Until any such Order in Council as is mentioned in the last preceding subsection has been made, the Secretary of State may from time to time, as he may think expedient for the public service, give such directions as may seem necessary or proper for dispensing with the service under this section of any officers and men of the auxiliary air force or the air force reserve and for calling out any officers or men of that force or that reserve to serve under this section whether the service under this section of such officers or men has been previously dispensed with or not.. 6. SHORT TITLE, SAVINGS, AND INTERPRETATION.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Auxiliary Air Force and Air Force Reserve Act, 1924. (2) Except as otherwise expressly provided, nothing in this Act shall affect any power of His Majesty by Order in Council to apply to the air force reserve or to the auxiliary air force or to the officers or men of those forces any enactments relating to the army reserve or to the territorial army or to the officers or men of the army reserve or the territorial army. (3) The powers conferred by this Act with respect to the conditions on the acceptance of commissions in the auxiliary air force or the enlistment of men in the auxiliary air force or the air force reserve shall be without prejudice to any other power conferred under or by virtue of any Act or Order in Council to give directions for the embodying of the auxiliary air force or the calling out on permanent service of the air force reserve. (4) In this Act (i) references to the British Islands shall be construed as exclusive of the Irish Free State; (ii) references to the Reserve Forces Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 48), and to the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907, shall be construed as references to those Acts as amended by any subsequent enactment. (5) For the purposes of this Act and of any orders made thereunder and of any enactments as applied or adapted by any such order, service on any flight of which the points of departure and intended return are within the British Islands or the territorial waters thereof, shall be deemed to be service within the British Islands notwithstanding that the flight may in its course extend beyond those limits. |