§ Sir PHILIP MAGNUSasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, for the purposes of the National Insurance Act, he will define what is meant by whole-time service; whether a person having an income of say £300 a year, who accepts a position as secretary, the hours of service being from 10 to 4, at a salary of £150 a year, is compelled to insure; and whether, in that case, a medical practitioner, having 2094W agreed to take service under the Act, is required regularly to attend such person when ill for the sum of 7s. a year?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe question of the correct interpretation of "whole-time service" in paragraph (g) of Part II. of the First Schedule of the Act rests primarily 3 in any specific case with the Commission acting judicially and upon consideration I of evidence. Any person or his employer may apply for a formal decision of the 5 Insurance Commissioners, under Section 66 of the Act, upon this point, and it would be impossible to give an answer in the case referred to by the hon. Member with any certainty except upon a fuller statement of the facts than is possible within the limits of a reply to a question.