NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13649, 14 February 1913, Page 6

NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT.

EXTRA MEDICAL. PAYMENTS

DENOUNCED BY ME. HEALY

APPEAL TO THE SPEAKER

(Reoeivcd Feb. 13, 11.40 p.m.)

London, Feb. 13

In the House of Commons Mr. Tim Healy appealed to the Speaker not to certify the Appropriation Bill providing £1800 for extra remuneration of doctors ! as a money Bill, on the ground that it ,was overriding the National Insurance Act's proviison for,a State contribution of two-ninths. He characterised the Bill as one of the grossest acts of illegality ever perpetrated by a constitutional Government. . Mr. Asquith announced that the payment would be regularised by legislation next session. The Speaker promised to examine the matter before certifying the Bill, which wa,s road the second time.