Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XIII. Miscellaneous questions

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239 MAJORITY REPORT. 558. There is one further matter in connexion with the Lascar Fund which was not specifically raised before us in evidence, bub to which we think it necessary to call attention. The Fund is at present used to provide pensions to ex-seamen between the ages of 65 and 70. Under the Widows’, Orphans’ and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, however, the State has now made provision for old age pensions from the age of 65, and no con- tribution towards the cost of these pensions is made by ship- owners in respect of seamen not domiciled in the United King- dom. On the other hand, under Section 64 (5) of the National Health Insurance Act, the ordinary proportion of the cost of pensions awarded out of the Tascar Fund is payable by the State. We are not aware in what way the scheme of seamen’s pensions will be amended on the coming into operation of old age pensions at 65, but in any case we do not consider it a fair and reasonable arrangement that, in the circumstances referred to above, the HExchequer should be called upon to contribute towards the cost of pensions and other benefits awarded out of the Fund, and we recommend, therefore, that the State grant in respect of such pensions and benefits should be withdrawn. SECTION E.—VALUATION OF SOCIETIES AND PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL BENEFITS. VALUATION OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES. 559. Suggestions were made to us on behalf of the Ministry of Health for the amendment of various statutory provisions with regard to the valuation of Approved Societies. The first of these related to what are ordinarily known as ‘* International Societies.” 560. Section 83 (3) of the 1911 Act provided that Approved Societies which operated in more than one part of the United Kingdom were to be valued separately in respect of each country in which members were resident. They were thus required to be treated for accounting and valuation purposes as though the members resident in each country formed a separate Society, and this provision was applicable even to Societies with a wholly unified administration centred in that country in which the head office—or it might be the only office—was situated. Section 16 of the 1913 Act repealed this provision, but conferred upon members in countries other than that in which the head office of the Society was situated an option to be exercised within a limited period of six months whereby, if they so desired, they might elect to continue to be separately valued. Section 3 (7) of the 1918 Act renewed the option for a further period of six months. At the same time an opportunity was also given to the members resident in any country for which a separate valuation had been retained to reverse their decision with the consent of the central governing body of the Society.

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