S.I. No. 32/1927 - Payments To Insurance Committees (Persons Over 70) Regulations, 1927.


SAORSTÁT EIREANN. STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1927. No. 32.NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE.

PAYMENTS TO INSURANCE COMMITTEES (PERSONS OVER 70) REGULATIONS, 1927.

REGULATIONS, dated 11th April, 1927, 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 1926.

The Irish Insurance Commissioners in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 16 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1920, and by paragraph (2) of the Second Schedule to that Act and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf do hereby with the concurrence of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health make the following Regulations:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Insurance Payments to Insurance Committees (Persons over 70) Regulations, 1927.

2. For the purpose of determining the amounts to be transferred in any year from the Reserve Suspense Fund to Insurance Committees in respect of the estimated cost (including administration expenses) of sanatorium benefit for insured persons who have attained the age of 70 years before the end of that year, the number of such persons in each of the years 1923 to 1929 (both inclusive) shall be calculated in the manner set forth in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE.

TABLE I.

The number of persons who attained the age of 70 years on or before the 31st December, 1922, and in respect of whom the benefit is to be chargeable during the years 1923 to 1929 shall be assumed to be as follows:—

Year

Men

Women

1923

4,950

1,030

1924

4,460

940

1925

3,990

850

1926

3,540

770

1927

3,110

690

1928

2,700

610

1929

2,310

540

The number of persons in respect of whom the benefit is to be chargeable during the years 1923 to 1929 for each 1,000 persons who attained the age of 70 years after the 31st December, 1922, and were entitled to the benefit on attaining that age shall be estimated as follows:—

TABLE II.

Year of attaining age of 70

Estimated Number of Persons

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

1928

1929

MEN.

1923 .. ..

491

931

862

793

724

657

590

1924 .. ..

491

931

862

793

724

657

1925 .. ..

491

931

862

793

724

1926 .. ..

491

931

862

793

1927 .. ..

491

931

862

1928 .. ..

491

931

1929 .. ..

491

WOMEN.

1923 .. ..

493

943

884

824

764

703

642

1924 .. ..

493

943

884

824

764

703

1925 .. ..

493

943

884

824

764

1926 .. ..

493

943

884

824

1927 .. ..

493

943

884

1928 .. ..

493

943

1929 .. ..

493

Given under the Official Seal of the Irish Insurance Commissioners this 11th day of April, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-Seven.

JOHN HOULIHAN,

Secretary to the Irish Insurance

Commissioners.