§ Mr. Beaumontasked the Minister of Health under what Act or regulation dockyard men who are on the sick list or hurt list and are entitled to draw half wages are not entitled to sick benefit from the National Health Insurance Fund?
§ Mr. ElliotUnder the provisions of Section 51 of the National Health Insurance Act sickness or disablement benefit under that Act is not payable for incapacity due to an accident for which the insured person is entitled to compensation when the amount of the compensation (including any payment from the employer which may be taken into consideration, e.g., wages) is at least equal to the amount of the benefit which would ordinarily have been payable.
Apart from these provisions of general application to insured persons, a small group of dockyard workers employed by the Admiralty are excepted from National Health Insurance under a certificate of exception issued in accordance with paragraph (b) of Part II of the First Schedule to the National Health Insurance Act on the ground that the terms of their employment are such as to secure provision in respect of sickness and disablement on the whole not less favourable than the corresponding benefits conferred by the Act.