250 MAJORITY REPORT. a. members of the Society. We think that arrangements of this kind are open to serious objection and are not in the interests of good administration. We consider that the Central Depart- ments should have power to bring any such arrangements to an end by requiring the amendment of any rule which purports to authorise them. SECTION K—OTHER MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION. 623. Inasmuch as the Workmen's Compensation Act had already made provision for payments being made to insured persons in respect of certain types of incapacitly (those, namely, due to accidents arising out of and in the course of their employ- ment), it was possible, and indeed desirable, in framing the Insurance Act to regard such illnesses as being already covered and accordingly to disentitle an insured person from benefits under the Act in respect of incapacity already compensated under other statutory provision. Moreover, it was clearly expedient to make provision to secure as far as possible that claims which were met by the employers in the form of payment of compensation should not be the subject also of demands on the Health Insurance Funds to which employers contribute. 624. The statutory provisions governing the relations between workmen’s compensation and payment of benefit under the Health Insurance Scheme are contained in Section 16 of the Act and are briefly summarised in the following paragraphs. 625. An insured person is not entitled to sickness or disable- ment benefit in respect of any incapacity for which he is entitled, ander the Workmen's Compensation Act, to receive compensation of a value equal to or greater than that of the benefit. An employer is réquired to notify to the Minister, or to the Approved Society concerned, any agreement for the payment of compensa- tion of less than 15s. a week, or for the redemption of weekly payments by a lump sum. An Approved Society is entitled to help its members to obtain the compensation to which they appear to be entitled, and is authorised to make advances of sickness or disablement benefit pending the settlement of the claim for compensation and to recover any amounts so advanced from the compensation awarded. 626. The evidence which we have receives satisfies us that these provisions are working satisfactorily, and that it is only in a few minor details that any amendment is required. It was suggested to us by a number of witnesses that workmen's com- pensation should be merged in the Scheme of National Health