S.I. No. 31/1926 - Approved Societies Amendment Regulations, 1926.


SAORSTÁT EIREANN. STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1926. No. 31.NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE.

APPROVED SOCIETIES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, 1926.

REGULATIONS, DATED 1ST JUNE, 1926, MADE BY THE IRISH INSURANCE COMMISSIONERS WITH THE CONCURRENCE OF THE MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH, UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACTS, 1911 to 1925.

The Irish Insurance Commissioners in exercise of the several powers conferred on them by the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1925, and with the concurrence of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health hereby make the following Regulations:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Amendment Regulations, 1926,* and shall be read as one with the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Regulations, 1918 to 1925 (hereinafter referred to as the "Principal Regulations") and these Regulations and the Principal Regulations may be cited together as the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Consolidated Regulations, 1918 to 1926.

2.—In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:—

"The Principal Act" means Parts I. and III. of the "National Insurance Act, 1911 (1 and 2 Geo. V., C. 55): "The Act of 1918" means the National Health Insurance Act, 1918 (7 and 8 Geo. V., C. 32).

(3) The interpretation Act, 1889, as modified and adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) applies to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

* These Regulations supersede the Provisional Regulations entitled the National Health Insurance Approved Societies (Amendment) Regulations, 1926, which were made and came into force on 23rd March, 1926.

3.—The following paragraphs shall be substituted for Article 6 of the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Amendment Regulations, 1919, as amended by Article 11 of the National Health Insurance (Approved Societies) Regulations, 1929:—

"(1) If an amalgamation or transfer of engagements takes place between any Societies or branches on or after the date as at which a valuation of the assets and liabilities of those Societies or branches is made but before the valuation of any of those Societies or branches has been completed, the amalgamation or transfer shall, for the purposes of such valuation, be deemed to have taken place immediately before the date as at which the valuation is made.

"(2) If an amalgamation or transfer of engagements takes place between any Societies or branches after the completion of the valuation of any of those Societies or branches and before any scheme made by any of the Societies or branches under Sections 37 or 38 of the principal Act in consequence of that valuation comes into operation, any surplus or deficiency disclosed by the valuation in the funds of each Society or branch shall be combined with or set off against the surplus or deficiency in the funds of each of the other Societies or branches as the case may require, and any resulting sum shall be dealt with, for the purposes of Sections 37 and 38 of the Principal Act and Sections 3 and 4 of the Act of 1918, as if it formed a single surplus or deficiency, as the case may be."

"(3) In the case of an amalgamation or transfer of engagements taking place between two or more Societies or branches when one or more of the Societies or branches have in operation a scheme of additional benefits or a scheme for making good a deficiency, then, subject to the approval of the Commissioners (and also, in the case of branches of the Committee of Management of the Society), having regard to any agreement between the Societies or branches concerned, any such scheme may be amended or varied, or a new scheme substituted therefor as the Society or branch formed by the amalgamation or to which the engagements are transferred may determine :

Provided that where under any such scheme or otherwise the Committee of Management of any Society or branch concerned is empowered to amend or vary the scheme the Committee of Management of the Society or branch formed by the amalgamation or to which the engagements are transferred may exercise the like powers.

"(4) Where a Society is, in consequence of an Amalgamation or transfer of engagements administering two or more schemes for the provision of the same additional benefit the Committee of Management of the Society may, subject to the approval of the Commissioners, combine the funds available for that benefit under such schemes, and such schemes shall have effect accordingly."

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Irish Insurance Commissioners this 1st day of June, in the year One thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

PIERCE KENT.

A person authorised by the Irish Insurance Commissioners to act on behalf of their Secretary.