No. 67/1930:

DEPOSIT CONTRIBUTORS (ABOLITION) REGULATIONS, 1930.

DEPOSIT CONTRIBUTORS (ABOLITION) REGULATIONS, 1930.

ARACHAS NAISIUNTA AR SHLÁINTE.

(NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE.)

DEPOSIT CONTRIBUTORS (ABOLITION) REGULATIONS, 1930.

Regulations 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 1929, with reference to Deposit Contributors. Dated this 27th day of August, 1930.

The Irish Insurance Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1929, 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.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Insurance Deposit Contributors (Abolition) Regulations, 1930, and shall have effect as from the 1st day of April, 1930.

(2) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires :—

" DEPOSIT CONSTRIBUTOR " means an insured person in respect of whom an account existed in the Deposit Contributors Fund on the 20th day of December, 1929, in accordance with the provisions of Section 42 of the National Insurance Act, 1911.

" DEPOSIT CONTRIBUTORS FUND " means the special fund set up in accordance with Section 42(a) of the National Insurance Act, 1911.

" SOCIETY " means an Approved Society.

" THE COMMISSIONERS " means the Irish Insurance Commissioners.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, as modified and adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 , applies to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

2.—Save as hereinafter prescribed by these Regulations a Society shall not after the 31st day of March, 1930, admit to membership any insured person in respect of whom an account existed in the Deposit Contributors Fund at the 20th day of December, 1929.

3.—(1) Where an insured person in respect of whom an account has been opened in the Deposit Contributors Fund has not on or before the 31st day of March, 1930, become a member of a Society such person shall on the 7th day of July, 1930, be transferred by the Commissioners to membership of a Society selected by them in the manner hereinafter set out, and upon such transfer being made such person shall be admitted to membership and shall become a member of such Society as from the 7th day of July, 1930.

(2) The Society selected by the Commissioners under the foregoing article shall be one of the following Approved Societies :—

(3) The quota of Deposit Contributors to be transferred to each Society shall be, as near as may be, one-eighth of the men and one-eighth of the women in respect of whom accounts are open in the Deposit Contributors Fund on the 1st day of April, 1930.

(4) Deposit Contributors who are masters, seamen or apprentices serving on foreign going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations shall be transferred to the Irish Trade Union Congress Health Insurance Society.

(5) The remaining Deposit Contributors shall be listed alphabetically—men and women in separate lists—and shall be divided into quotas as provided in Article 3 (3) of these Regulations, and allocated to the Societies mentioned in Article 3 (2) in the order in which they are named in that Article, subject to the proviso that the entire number allocated to the Irish Trade Union Congress Health Insurance Society shall not exceed the number of the quota as provided in the said Article 3 (3).

(6) If the Commissioners subsequently ascertain that an insured person who should have been treated as a Deposit Contributor liable to compulsory transfer in accordance with the foregoing provisions was not so treated, such insured person shall be deemed to have been transferred as from the 7th day of July, 1930 :—

(a) in the case of a master, seaman or apprentice serving on a foreign going ship or ship engaged in regular trade on foreign stations, to the Irish Trade Union Congress Health Insurance Society and

(b) in any other case to the Society in whose quota the Commissioners determine his name to fall alphabetically.

Given under the Official Seal of the Irish Insurance Commissioners this 27th day of August, in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty.

JOHN HOULIHAN,

Secretary to the Irish Insurance Commissioners.