National Health Insurance Act 1922
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1922 c. 38 |
| Year | 1922 |
National Health Insurance Act, 1922
(12 & 13 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 38.
An Act to make further provision with respect to the cost of medical benefit and to the expenses of the administration of benefits under the Acts relating to National Health Insurance to repeal section two and to amend section twenty-nine of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918, and for purposes connected therewith.
[4th August 1922]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Provision as to cost of medical benefit and administration expenses.
(1) There shall be paid in each year out of the funds hereinafter mentioned—
(a ) to insurance committees in England, on account of the cost, and the expenses of the administration, of medical benefit, by way of addition to the sums payable under subsection (1) of section seven of the National Health Insurance Act, 1920, and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, a sum at such yearly rate as may be prescribed, but not exceeding two shillings and four pence halfpenny per year, in respect of each of the total number of the persons in respect of whom payments are made under the said section seven; and
(b ) to the Minister of Health, on account of the expenses incurred by him in connection with the administration of benefits, a sum at such yearly rate as may be prescribed, but not exceeding three halfpence per year, in respect of each of the total number (calculated in the prescribed manner) of the members of the society.
(2) The sums to be paid as aforesaid shall be paid in the case of each approved society out of the benefit fund of the society, and there shall be repaid to the benefit fund out of the Central Fund an amount equal to seven-ninths of one-third of the sums so paid out of the benefit fund.
(3) Subject as hereinafter provided, no part of any sums paid under this section out of the benefit fund of an approved society shall be derived from moneys provided by Parliament:
Provided that there shall be credited to each society out of moneys provided by Parliament in such manner and at such times as may be prescribed by regulations to be made by the National Health Insurance Joint Committee with the approval of the Treasury, such sum (to be calculated in such manner as the regulations may prescribe) as would, by virtue of section three of the National Insurance Act, 1911 , be payable out of moneys provided by...
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