§ 67. Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSONasked whether a woman engaged in home duties and fearing the approach of ill-health may do a day's work in a shop or laundry and so come under the National Insurance Act and secure medical and sanatorium benefit; whether there is, in practice, anything to stop her acting in this manner; and whether she could sign the usual form of application for membership of an approved society and, being accepted, receive in due course medical and sanatorium benefit, though in fact she may have designed this procedure in order to get such benefits by the payment of only one or two contributions?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. As I stated, in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Derbyshire on the 27th March, a person whose normal occupation is not employment within the meaning of the National Insurance Act ceases to be insured, and to be entitled to benefits on ceasing to be employed. As regards 582 the second part of the question, an applicant for membership of an approved society is required to give particulars of his occupation and the method of payment for it, and to sign a statement that he is qualified to be an insured person. A false statement in the form of application would justify the society in expelling a person who had been admitted to membership on the strength of it. A false statement knowingly made for the purpose of obtaining benefit would render the person liable to penalties.