National Health Insurance Act, 1923

PART II.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS.

Constitution of Irish members of British Societies into Provisional Irish Societies.

2.—(1) Where a British Society had immediately before the first day of April, 1922, any members resident in Saorstát Eireann, then, as from the said first day of April, any insured persons so resident who would, if Saorstát Eireann had not been established, have been entitled to receive benefits from that British Society as members thereof, shall be deemed to have been and to be members of a Provisional Irish Society.

(2) The benefits of the members of such a Provisional Irish Society may, if arrangements for the purpose are made between the Insurance Commissioners and the Joint Committee, continue until a date not later than the appointed day to be administered by the Committee of Management of such British Society as aforesaid as if such Committee of Management were the Committee of Management of the Provisional Irish Society.