§ (1) No payment shall be made on account of sickness disablement or maternity benefit to or in respect of any person during any period when the person to or in respect of whom the benefit is payable is an inmate of any workhouse, hospital, asylum, or infirmary, supported by any public authority or out of any public funds or by a charity, or voluntary subscriptions, or of a sanatorium or similar institution approved under this Part of this Act.
§ (2) During such period as aforesaid the sum which would otherwise have been payable on account of any such benefit to or in respect of such person—
- (a) shall be paid to or applied in whole or in part for the relief or maintenance of his dependents (if any) in such manner as the society or committee by which the benefit is administered, after consultation whenever possible with such person, think fit; or
- (b) if such person is an inmate of a sanatorium or similar institution in which he is receiving treatment in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act, and has no dependents, shall be paid to the local health committee towards the general purposes thereof unless such person is not a member of an approved society; or
- (c) if such persons, being a member of an approved society, is an inmate of a hospital, convalescent home, or infirmary supported by charity or by voluntary subscriptions and has no dependents, shall, if an agreement for the purpose has been made between the society or committee and the hospital, convalescent home, or infirmary, be paid, in whole or in part, according to such agreement, towards the maintenance of such person in the hospital, convalescent home, or infirmary:
§ Provided that in the case of a married woman or widow who is entitled to sickness benefit in addition to maternity benefit, no part of the sum which would otherwise be payable on account of maternity benefit shall be paid or applied for the relief or maintenance of her dependents, but such sum may be paid to the hospital, convalescent home, or infirmary of which she is an inmate as aforesaid in like manner as if she had no dependents.
§ (3) For the purpose of this Section, the expression "dependants" shall include such persons as the approved society or local health committee shall ascertain to be wholly or in part dependent upon the earnings of such inmate of any such institution as aforesaid.
§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (1), leave out the word "asylum," and insert instead thereof the words "convalescent home."
§ In Sub-section (2), paragraph (a), leave out the word "think," and insert instead thereof the word "thinks."
§ In paragraph (b), after the word "person" ["if such person"], insert the words "being a member of an approved society."
§ Leave out the words "unless such person is not a member of an approved society."
§ In paragraph (c), after the word "hospital" ["inmate of a hospital"], insert the word "asylum."
§ After the word "hospital" ["and the hospital"] insert the word "asylum."
§ After the word "hospital" ["in the hospital"] insert the word "asylum."
§ Leave out the words "in the case of" ["in the case of a married woman"] and insert instead thereof the words "if such an inmate as aforesaid is."
§ After the word "hospital" ["paid to the hospital"] insert the word "asylum."
§ Leave out Sub-section (3).—[Mr. Lloyd George.]
§ Administration of Benefits.