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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