The National Insurance Act 1911 : being a treatise on the scheme of national health insurance and insurance against unemployment created by that Act, with the incorporated enactments, full explanatory notes, tables, and examples / by Orme Clarke.

  • Clarke, Orme (Orme Bigland)
Date:
1913
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Credit: The National Insurance Act 1911 : being a treatise on the scheme of national health insurance and insurance against unemployment created by that Act, with the incorporated enactments, full explanatory notes, tables, and examples / by Orme Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADMINISTRATIVE MACHINERY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE. The most important authorities and bodies which will share the administration of this Act are — 1. The Insurance Commissioners. 2. Joint Committee of the Insurance Commissioners. 3. Advisory Committee. 4. Approved Societies. 5. Associations of Approved Societies. 6. County Societies. 7. Insurance Committees. 8. District Insurance Committees. 9. Local Medical Committees. A short sketch of the respective functions of these authorities and bodies follows :— The Insurance Commissioners.—As has already been pointed out the administrative scheme of the Act is that the United Kingdom should be divided into its four component parts, and that each of those parts should be administered by a separate central authority. Consequently there are four bodies of Insurance Commissioners, viz. the Insurance Commissioners (whose functions are virtually confined to England), the Scottish Insurance Commissioners, the Irish Insurance Com- missioners, and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners. These authorities are respectively established by secs. 57, 80 (1), 81 (1), 82 (1). The three last-mentioned bodies of Commis- sioners have the same powers and duties in regard to their respective areas as the Insurance Commissioners. Each such body of Insurance Commissioners is a body which may sue and be sued, and which has an official seal,