§ 75. Mr. JAMES HOGGEasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Insurance Commissioners, on being satisfied that a card which has been lost has been fully stamped, will credit that number of stamps to the insured person; whether a sworn statement by the employer that he has stamped the card and by the employed person that the 4d. has been deducted from his wage will be accepted as satisfactory evidence that the card has been stamped; and, if not, what further evidence will be required?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe action which the Commissioners are in a position to take in any case of a lost card must depend on the circumstances in which and by whom, it was lost. The evidence suggested by the hon. Member is not in itself sufficient, since, as I explained in 1860 answer to the hon. Member for Gorton on the 3rd April, it is necessary to guard against the risk that the card may be used improperly by another contributor into whose hands it has come, to support a claim on the National Health Insurance Fund.
§ Mr. MASTERMANI do not quite understand what the hon. Member means by "further evidence." Such evidence must be given as will satisfy the Commissioners.
§ Mr. HOGGEWhat further evidence will be required in addition to that already received and mentioned in my question as, having been produced in this case?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI think the employed person will have to give some evidence of the lost card.