§ (1) Every approved society, shall make proper provision by rules to the satisfaction of the Insurance Commissioners for the government of the society, and if a society with branches—
- (a) for the government of the society and its branches;
- (b) for the determination of disputes arising between the society and any branch thereof, or between one such branch and another;
- (c) for the administration of benefits by the branches as respects insured persons who are members of such branches;
- (d) for the keeping of proper books of account by the branches in any case where separate accounts are usually kept by those branches;
- (e) for depriving of or suspending from the right of administering benefits under this Part of this Act any branch which is guilty of maladministration of those benefits, and for providing in such a case for their administration by the society or otherwise.
§ (2) Every approved society and every branch thereof shall comply with any regulations made by the Insurance Commissioners as to the place in which meetings are to be held, and those regulations may provide for the use for such meetings, with or without payment, of any offices or other buildings occupied by or in connection with a labour exchange or under the control of a Government department or belonging to or under the management of a local authority, but subject to the consent of such local authority or of such Government department.
§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (1), after the word "shall" ["shall make proper provision"], insert the words "as respects the administration of the affairs of the society under this Part of this Act."
§ In paragraph (e), after the word "benefits" ["those benefits"], insert the words "or is convicted of any offence under any Act."
§ In Sub-section (2), leave out the words "occupied by or in connection with a Labour Exchange or."
§ After the word "department" ["department or"], insert the words ("including offices or buildings occupied by or in connection with a Labour Exchange.")
§ Leave out the words "such local authority, or of such," and insert instead thereof the word "the."
§ At end of Sub-section, insert the words "or the local authority concerned."
§ After the words last inserted, insert,
§ "(3) Where under any Act regulating the constitution of an approved society the rules of the society are required to be registered, any rules approved under this Section by the Insurance Commissioners shall forthwith be registered, but until so registered shall have effect as if they had been duly registered."—[Mr. Lloyd George.]