HC Deb 21 October 1912 vol 42 cc1719-20
33. Mr. C. BATHURST

asked what reasons an approved society, which an insured person desires to leave in order to join another approved society, will be permitted to allege for refusing its assent to such transfer; and whether insurance of a person with the society for purposes other than those of the National Insurance Act will be included among such reasons?

Mr. MASTERMAN

It is clearly impossible for the Commissioners to state in advance the grounds on which they might determine an appeal which has not yet come before them. But in the early months of the Act they would require very clear proof that the society from which a member was withdrawing would suffer material harm on its State side by his withdrawal before they decided not to pay his transfer value to the second society.