§ Viscount DALRYMPLEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the panel doctors have contracted to specify in their certificates the actual nature of the disease of an insured patient; and whether the approved societies are entitled to withhold sick benefit if the actual disease is not so specified?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe panel doctors have contracted to furnish, at the request of the insured patient, such certificates as are required to be furnished by that person in connection with any claim for sick-974W ness or disablement benefit made by him in pursuance of the rules of the society of which he is a member. And the approved societies are entitled, as trustees of the funds which they disburse, to require from an insured person claiming sickness or disablement benefit under the Act, sufficient evidence of his suffering from specific disease or bodily or mental disablement to satisfy them that he is legally entitled to receive the benefits which he claims.