period shall be calculated in periods of thirteen weeks, any fraction of thirteen weeks more than six weeks being counted as thirteen weeks, and six weeks or less being disregarded: Provided that if in the case of a contributor whose net penalty arrears do not exceed twenty (or, in the application of this Article to Ireland, twenty-two) the penalty has at the date of ascertainment been discharged by the reduction or suspension of benefits for a period of six weeks, no such further debit shall be made to his account. (5) The several numbers, fractions being disregarded, so credited or debited shall be set off against each other, and the resulting credit or debit shall be deemed to be the balance of contributions or arrears standing to the credit or debit of the account. (e) THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (SPECIAL CUSTOMS) CONSOLIDATED ORDER, 1914 1. The employments set forth in the First Schedule to this Order are specified as being classes of employment in which a custom or practice prevails according to which the persons employed receive full remuneration during periods of disease or disablement, or some part thereof. 2. The employments set forth in the first column of the Second Schedule to this Order are specified as being classes of employment in which a custom or practice prevails in the localities specified in the second column of that Schedule according to which the persons employed receive full remuneration during periods of disease or disablement or some part thereof. 3. For the purpose of adapting the other provisions of Part I. of the Act to cases under Section 47 of the Act, the provisions set out in the Third Schedule to this Order shall have effect. 4. The Orders set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Order are hereby revoked, so far as they relate to employment in England, but such revocation shall not affect any right, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred under any of those Orders. 5. This Order may be cited as the National Health Insurance (Special Customs) Consolidated Order, 1914. SCHEDULES First Schedule Employment by way of manual labour by or under any of the following bodies, namely:A council of a county. : A council of a borough (including a metro- A council of an urban district. A council of a rural district. A poor law authority. If by the terms of the employment the person employed is entitled to not less than one week's notice of the termination of his employment. A visiting committee constituted under the A joint board constituted under the Public A joint Committee appointed under Section A hospital committee constituted under the An education committee established under the Education Acts, 1870 to 1909. Employment by way of manual labour in an institution certified under the Children Act, 1908, or the Inebriates Act, 1898, or the Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act, 1893, or the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act, 1899. Employment otherwise than by way of manual labour by or under such body or in any such institution as aforesaid. Employment otherwise than by way of manual labour as a foreman, manager, or assistant manager. Employment as a clerk. Employment as a shop assistant. Employment as a warehouseman. Employment as a resident tutor or governess. Employment as a journalist. Employment as a press telegraphist. Employment as a teacher. Employment as a teacher or worker for religious or philanthropic purposes. Employment as a commercial traveller whose remuneration is wholly or mainly by way of salary or wages. Employment as a domestic servant. Employment as a porter, messenger, commis- Employment as usher or messenger of a County Employment by or under a Co-operative Society. If by the terms of the employment the person employed is entitled to not less than one week's notice of the termination of his employment. Employment as a bailiff appointed to assist the High Bailiff of a County Court. Note For the purposes of this Schedule (a) The expression "warehouseman" shall be deemed to include a porter or packer employed in a warehouse, and the expression "domestic servant" shall be deemed to include a menial servant employed in whole-time service in or about a private residence. (b) Employment by or under any one of the bodies (including a combination of local authorities) specified in this Schedule shall be deemed to be a separate employment and shall not include employment by or under any other body (including a combination of local authorities) or in any institution specified in this Schedule. (1) Where a scheme is made under Section 37 of the Act or under Section 38 of the Act, the provision made by the scheme with respect to persons to whom Section 47 applies may be different from the provision made with respect to other insured persons. (2) Every person on entering any employment in which he will be a person to whom Section 47 applies shall, whether he was or was not previously such a person, give notice of the fact, if he is a member of an Approved Society, to the Society, and, if he is not a member of an Approved Society, to the Insurance Committee, and every such notice must state whether the person giving the notice is engaged for a term of six months certain or not. (3) The employer of any person to whom Section 47 applies and who has been suffering from disease or disablement shall, on the demand of that person, and also, if that person is a member of an Approved Society, on the demand of his Society, or, if that person is not a member of an Approved Society, on the demand of the Insurance Committee, deliver to him, or to the Society or Insurance Committee, as the case may be, particulars in writing of the date on which the disease or disablement commenced and terminated, together with a statement whether the employed person did or did not perform any work during the whole or any part of the period of the disease or disablement. Fourth Schedule The National Health Insurance (Special Customs) Order, 1912 (No. 1). The National Health Insurance (Special Customs) Order, 1912 (No. 2). The National Health Insurance (Special Customs) Order, 1912 (No. 5). The National Health Insurance (Special Customs) Order, 1913 (No. 2). APPENDIX XIII (CHAPTER XIX.) UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (a) REPAYMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1911 (PART II.), AND THE NATIONAL INSURANCE (PART II., AMENDMENT) ACT, 1914 ACT of 1911, Section 95.-(1) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade by any workman or his personal representatives that the workman has paid contributions in accordance with the provisions of this part of this Act in respect of five hundred weeks or upwards, and that the workman has reached the age of sixty, or before his death had reached the age of sixty, the workman or his representatives shall be entitled to be repaid the amount, if any, by which the total amount of such contributions have exceeded the total amount received by him out of the unemployment Fund under this Act, together with compound interest at the rate of 21 per cent per annum calculated in the prescribed manner. (2) A repayment to a workman under this section shall not affect his liability to pay contributions under this part of this Act, and, if after any such repayment he becomes entitled to unemployment benefit, he shall be treated as having paid in respect of the period for which the repayment has been made the full number of contributions which is most nearly equal to five-eighths of the number of contributions actually paid during that period. Act of 1914, Section 6.-(1) At the end of Subsection (1) of Section 95 of the principal Act the following proviso shall be added: "Provided that if at the time when contributions first became payable in respect of any workman under this part of this Act he was over the age of 55, the number of weeks in respect of which contributions are required to be paid by him in order to entitle him or his representatives to such repayments as aforesaid |