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Provision of additional benefits.
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4.—(1) The Society may prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme for expending, during each year of any, additional benefit period, among insured persons who are members of the Society the amount made available for additional benefits in such year on any one or more of the additional benefits including the administration thereof and, upon any such scheme being sanctioned by the Minister, the Society may provide additional benefits in accordance with the scheme, subject however to any withdrawal of sanction by the Minister under sub-section (3) of this section.
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(2) Where a scheme in relation to any additional benefit period under sub-section (1) of this section has been sanctioned by the Minister, the Society may, with the sanction of the Minister, amend the scheme and the scheme as so amended shall have effect from such date as may be determined by the Minister.
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(3) The Minister may during the additional benefit period to which a scheme under this section relates withdraw, his sanction from any one or more of the provisions of the scheme and in relation to any one or more of the additional benefits thereunder, from such date as he thinks fit.
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(4) A scheme under this section may determine the conditions to be complied with as respects the additional benefits thereunder and may provide for the reduction, suspension or deprivation of the said additional benefits as regards members of the Society who are in arrears.
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(5) A member of the Society shall not be entitled to an additional benefit provided by a Scheme under this section unless such conditions, relating to the period of membership of the Society and the number of contributions paid during that period, as may be prescribed with respect to that additional benefit are complied with.
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(6) Any moneys unexpended out of the amount made available for additional benefits in any year of an additional benefit period may, with the approval of the Minister, be expended
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(a) during any succeeding year of that period on any additional benefit provided, by a scheme under this section, in relation to such succeeding year, or
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(b) after the expiration of that period in discharge of liabilities incurred, during that period, under a scheme under this section.
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(7) Any moneys unexpended out of the amount made available for additional benefits in any years of an additional benefit period which have not been expended under sub-section (6) of this section may, with the approval of the Minister, be expended in the next succeeding additional benefit period on any additional benefit provided, by a scheme under this section, in relation to such last-mentioned period.
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