Draft regulations, dated the 7th November, 1913, proposed to be made under Section 15 of the National Insurance Act, 1911 / by the National Health Insurance Joint Committee acting jointly with the Insurance Commissioners.

  • Great Britain. National Health Insurance Joint Committee
Date:
1913
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Credit: Draft regulations, dated the 7th November, 1913, proposed to be made under Section 15 of the National Insurance Act, 1911 / by the National Health Insurance Joint Committee acting jointly with the Insurance Commissioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    : Form 11. Form 12. Procedure ;fc Inquiry. ; Leport by nquiry Committee. 1 ] i ’ower to I aspend roceedings •, i certain ases. I iervice of otices, etc. Commissioners may think reasonable, the Commissioners are of opinion that it is desirable to hold an Inquiry, they shall con- stitute an Inquiry Committee in the manner hereinbefore provided and shall appoint a day for the holding of the Inquiry and shall send— (a) to the practitioner, a notice informing him that the Inquiry will be held on the appointed day, and (b) to each Committee on whose list of practitioners undertaking the treatment of insured persons the name of the practitioner appears, a notice of the proposed Inquiry stating the date, time, or place on or at which it is proposed to hold the Inquiry, and each such Committee may appear and may take such part in the proceedings at the Inquiry as the Inquiry Committee shall think proper. 70. The Commissioners shall appoint some fit person to appear at the Inquiry in support of the allegations in the case for inquiry, and subject thereto, the procedure at the In- quiry shall be governed as nearly as may be by the rules set out in the Seventh Schedule to these Regulations, but those rules may be varied or modified as the circumstances of the case may re- quire and as the Commissioners, or the Inquiry Committee with the approval of the Commissioners, may think fit. Report by the Inquiry Committee. 71. At the conclusion of the Inquiry, the Inquiry Committee shall, as soon as may be, draw up a report stating such relevant facts as appear to them to be established by the evidence and the inferences of fact which, in the opinion of the Inquiry Com- mittee, may properly be drawn from the facts so established, and the Commissioners, after taking such report into consideration, shall give their decision in due course and may cause it to be published in such manner as they shall think fit. Miscellaneous. 72. Where it appears to the Commissioners that the alleged facts on which any representation or case for inquiry is based are, or may be, the subject of investigation by any other tribunal, they may, if they think fit, direct that no further steps shall be taken under these Regulations pending the issue of such other investigation. 73. —(1.) Where any notice or other document is required or authorised by these Regulations to be sent by or on behalf of the Commissioners, it shall be a sufficient compliance with the Regu- lations if the notice or other document is sent by post in a registered letter directed to the person for whom it is intended, at his ordinary address, or, if he is a practitioner, at the address set opposite his name in the Medical Register, and in the case of an Approved Society, branch of an Approved Society, Committee, Local Medical Committee or Panel Committee, to the Secretary
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