- (1) In addition to any allowances for travelling expenses which may be paid under Sub-section (2) of Section sixty-one of the principal Act an insurance committee may pay to the members of the committee subsistence allowance and compensation for loss of remunerative time in accordance with a scheme prepared by the committee and approved by the Insurance Commissioners, and there shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parlia-
2759 ment towards the expenses of an insurance committee under such scheme, such sum (if any) as the Insurance Commissioners with the consent of the Treasury, may determine so, however, that the aggregate amount so paid shall not exceed thirty thousand pounds in any one year. - (2) An insurance committee may pay as general expenses incurred by them in the execution of their duties any sum, not exceeding ten pounds in any one year, as a subscription to the funds of any association of insurance committees whose objects are approved by the Insurance Commissioners, as well as any reasonable expenses of the attendances of representatives, not exceeding in any case four, at meetings of such associations, on a scale to be approved by the Commissioners.
- (3) At least one woman shall be on every sub-committee formed by an insurance committee for dealing with the administration of any benefit, and Section fifty-nine of the principal Act shall be varied accordingly.
§ Lords Amendment: Insert the following new Sub-section:—
§ (4) This Section shall come into operation on the passing of this Act.