§ (1) For the purpose of carrying this Part of this Act into effect in Wales there shall be constituted, as soon as may be after the passing of this Act, Commissioners for Wales (to be called the Welsh Insurance Commissioners) with a central office in such town in Wales as the Treasury may determine, and with such branch offices in Wales as the Treasury may think fit, and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners shall be appointed by the Treasury, and may appoint such officers, inspectors, referees, and servants for the purposes aforesaid as the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, subject to the approval of the Treasury, may determine, and the provisions of this Part of this Act with respect to the payment of the salaries and 784 remuneration of the Insurance Commissioners, and the officers, inspectors, referees, and servants appointed by them, and with respect to the payment of the expenses incurred by the Treasury or the Insurance Commissioners in carrying this Part of this Act into effect shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to the payment of the salaries and remuneration of the Welsh Insurance Commissioners and the officers, inspectors, referees, and servants appointed by them, and to the payment of expenses incurred by the Treasury or the Welsh Insurance Commissioners in carrying this Part of this Act into effect in Wales, and for the purpose aforesaid the Welsh Insurance Commissioners and the officers, inspectors, referees, and servants appointed by them shall respectively have all the like powers and duties as are by the foregoing provisions of this Act conferred and imposed on the Insurance Commissioners and the officers, inspectors, referees, and servants appointed by them, and references in those provisions to the Insurance Commissioners shall be construed as references to the Welsh Insurance Commissioners.
§ (2) All sums received in respect of contributions in Wales under this Part of this Act, and all sums paid out of moneys provided by Parliament in respect of benefits under this Part of this Act which are administered in Wales, and the expenses of administration of such benefits shall be paid into a fund to be called the Welsh National Health Insurance Fund, under the control and management of the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, and the sums required to meet expenditure properly incurred by approved societies and local Health Committees for the purposes of the benefits administered by them in Wales, and the administration of such benefits shall be paid out of that fund, and the foregoing provisions of this Act, with respect to the National Health Insurance Fund, shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to the Welsh National Health Insurance Fund accordingly.
§ (3) Joint regulations to be made by the Insurance Commissioners and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, with the approval of the Treasury, shall provide for the preparation on a uniform basis of the tables to be prepared by the respective Commissioners, and for the making of all necessary adjustments and settlements of accounts in cases of insured persons removing from Wales to England or Scotland or Ireland or from England or Scotland 785 or Ireland to Wales, as the case may be, both as between the National Health Insurance Fund and the Scottish or Irish or Welsh National Insurance Fund and as between approved societies and branches and otherwise in respect of such cases, and for the transfer of sums from one fund or account to another.
§ (4) For the purposes of this Section Monmouthshire shall be deemed to form part of Wales.
§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (1), after the word "Commissioners" [" Welsh Insurance Commissioners"], insert the words "of whom one at least shall be a duly qualified medical practitioner."
§ Leave out the word "foregoing" ["duties as are by the foregoing"].
§ In Sub-section (2), leave out the words "in respect of," and insert instead the word "from."
§ Leave out the words "in Wales" ["contributions in Wales"].
§ After the word "Act" ["Part of this Act"], insert the words "in respect of insured persons resident in Wales."
§ Leave out the words "which are administered in Wales," and insert instead thereof the words "to such persons."
§ Leave out the word "the" ["purposes of the"], and insert the word "such."
§ Leave out the words "administered by them in Wales."
§
Leave out Sub-section (3), and insert instead thereof,
(3) The powers of the Local Government Board with respect to the distribution of any sum available for the purpose of the provision of sanatoria and other institutions shall, as respects the part thereof apportioned to Wales, be exercised by the Welsh Insurance Commissioners.
(4) If before or within twelve months after the commencement of this Act there is established for Wales by royal charter an association for the purpose of providing sanatoria and other institutions for the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis or such other diseases as the Local Government Board, with the approval of the Treasury, may appoint, the Welsh Insurance Commissioners in making and the Treasury in approving grants from any such sum as is in the last preceding Subsection mentioned, shall have regard
786
to the provision of such institutions, which may have been made, or may be proposed to be made, by the association.
§ Leave out Sub-section (4).—[Mr. Lloyd George.]