§ (2) Where an insured person who claims to be entitled to sickness or disablement benefit fails to give notice of the disease or disablement within three days from the commencement thereof, benefit shall in his case, subject as hereinafter provided, commence only on the day following the date on which the notice is given, or, if the disease or disablement is under the provisions of Sub-section (5) of Section eight of the principal Act deemed to be a continuation of a previous disease or disablement, on the day next but one before that date:
§ Provided that if the insured person proves to the society or committee administering the benefit or, on appeal, to the Insurance Commissioners, that in the circumstances of the case he was not reasonably able to give notice either before the date on which it was in fact given, or before some earlier date being a date more than three days after the commencement of the incapacity, he shall be entitled to benefit as from the third day of incapacity or, in the case of a 2036 disease or disablement which is deemed as aforesaid to be a continuation of a previous disease or disablement, as from the commencement of the incapacity, so, however, that where the insured person only proves inability to give notice before some date earlier than the date on which notice was in fact given he shall not be entitled to benefit for the period commencing on that earlier date and ending on the date of the notice.
§ Lords Amendments:
§ Leave out the words "or on appeal to the Insurance Commissioners," and insert instead thereof the words "are satisfied, or if in the case of a dispute it is decided in manner provided by the principal Act."—Agreed to.
§ Leave out the words "as from the third day of", and insert instead thereof the words "commencing on the fourth day of the".—Agreed to.