S.I. No. 95/1927 - National Health Insurance. Additional Benefits Regulations, 1927.

SAORSTÁT EIREANN. STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1927. No. 95.NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE. ADDITIONAL BENEFITS REGULATIONS, 1927.

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 1926.

Dated, 17th November, 1927.

The Irish Insurance Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1926, and of all other powers enabling them on 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 (Additional Benefits) Regulations, 1927.*

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

" The Principal Act " means Part I. and III. of the National Insurance Act, 1911 (1 and 2 Geo. 5, c. 55).

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, as modified 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 the Act of the Oireachtas.

2. In addition to the persons referred to in Article 2 of the National Health Insurance (Additional Benefits) Regulations, 1926 (S.R. and O, No. 50, 1926) the following persons shall be entitled to participation in schemes of Additional Benefits authorised by a scheme under Section 37 of the Principal Act, notwithstanding the fact that they were not members of the Society or Branch on the date as at which the Valuation was made, that is to say:—

Persons admitted to membership of an Approved Society in Saorstát Eireann by transfer, on or before 7th July, 1924, from another Approved Society in Saorstát Eireann of which they had become members by reason of the provisions of Section 5 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1923 (No. 20 of 1923).

(4) These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation and to have had effect from the 4th day of July, 1926.

Given under the Official Seal of the Irish Insurance Commissioners this 17th day of November in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

JOHN HOULIHAN,

Secretary to the Irish Insurance

Commissioners.

*These Regulations supersede the Provisional Regulations entitled the National Health Insurance Additional Benefits Regulations, 1927, which were made and came into force on the 6th September, 1927