National Health Insurance Act, 1923

PART III.

ADAPTATION OF ENACTMENTS AND MUTUAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Adaptation of enactments.

15.—(1) The Insurance Commissioners may for the purpose of Section 4 of the Act of 1918 establish a fund to be called the National Health Insurance Central Fund, to which shall be carried so much of the Central Fund established under the control of the Joint Committee in pursuance of the said Section 4 as on the apportionment of that Fund between Great Britain and Saorstát Eireann is found to be attributable to Saorstát Eireann.

(2) Every mention or reference contained in the Acts (including Section 4 of the Act of 1918) of or to the Central Fund established under the said Section 4 shall be construed and take effect as a mention of or reference to the National Health Insurance Central Fund established under this Section.

(3) The Acts shall in their application to Saorstát Eireann have effect as if—

(a) for the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds mentioned in sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the Act of 1918 there were substituted the sum of five thousand pounds; and

(b) for the sum of thirty thousand pounds mentioned in Section 31 of the Act of 1913 there were substituted the sum of one thousand pounds.

(4) References in the Acts to the United Kingdom shall, in the application of the Acts to Saorstát Eireann, be construed as references to Saorstát Eireann, except that in sub-section (10) of Section forty-eight of the Act of 1911 the reference to the United Kingdom shall be construed as a reference to Saorstát Eireann or Great Britain.