Provisions). (3) Provision may be made by regulations for such A.D. 1926. variation of reserve values as appears necessary in consequence of the provisions of this Part of this Act. 7.-(1) This Part of this Act may be cited as the Short title, 5 National Health Insurance Act, 1926, and shall be construcconstrued as one with the principal Act, and that Act tion and application and this Part of this Act may be cited together as the of Part I. National Health Insurance Acts, 1924 and 1926. (2) This Part of this Act shall not, except as herein10 after provided, apply to Northern Ireland: Provided that if provision substantially corresponding to the provision contained in this Part of this Act for making good out of the Reserve Suspense Fund deficiencies due to the provisions of this Part of this 15 Act is made by the Parliament of Northern Ireland, His Majesty may by Order in Council apply for the purpose of deficiencies in connection with approved societies or branches of approved societies in Northern Ireland so much of the said section as relates to the 20 crediting of amounts out of the Central Fund. PART II. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE. ment 8.-(1) As from and after the fifth day of April, Amendment nineteen hundred and twenty-six, until the expiration of of s. 4 of 25 the extended period as defined in section four of the UnemployUnemployment Insurance Act, 1925, the contribution Insurance payable under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 Act, 1925, to 1925, out of moneys provided by Parliament shall 15 & 16 be a contribution of such an amount as may be deter- Geo. 5. c. 69. 30 mined by the Treasury to be approximately equivalent, having regard to the estimated proportions in which contributions are payable in respect of men, women, boys and girls, to the sum which would be produced by weekly contributions paid in respect of insured persons 35 and exempt persons at the respective rates set out in the Second Schedule to this Act. (2) Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of the said section four (except in so far as it relates to the meaning of the expression "the 1925 debt ") is hereby repealed as from 40 the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twentysix. (3) This Part of this Act shall not apply to Northern Provisions). A.D. 1926. Substitution PART III. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE. 9.-(1) One register only of electors shall be made of one regis- in each year and the qualifying period shall be reduced from six months to three months. ter a year for two and c. 64 11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 12. Amendment of Ballot Act, 1872, as to division of register at polling station. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 33. (2) For the purpose of giving effect to the foregoing provision, the Representation of the People Acts, 1918 to 1922, shall have effect subject to the following modifications, that is to say : 5 (a) All provisions applicable to the autumn register 10 shall apply as respects the yearly register, except that the yearly register shall remain in force until the fifteenth day of October in the next following year, and the provisions as to the preparation of two registers in each year 15 and as to the spring register shall cease to have effect; (b) The provisions mentioned in the first column of Part I. of the Third Schedule to this Act shall be amended in the manner shown in the second 20 column of the said Part I.; and to such other modifications as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid. (3) It shall be lawful for His Majesty by Order in Council to make such adaptations in the provisions of any 25 Act (including any local Act or any Act to confirm a Provisional Order) as may seem to Him necessary to make those provisions conform with the provisions of this Part of this Act. (4) Nothing in this section shall affect the pre- 30 paration of the autumn register of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and that register shall continue in force until the fifteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven. 10.-(1) At any election to which the Ballot Act, 35 1872, applies the returning officer may direct that the register or the part of the register containing the names of electors allotted to vote at a polling station shall be divided for the purpose of making separate issues of ballot papers to the electors: Provided that the returning officer before giving any such direction shall be satisfied that if any such 40 Provisions). division of the register is made the proper conduct of A.D. 1926. the election will not be prejudiced. (2) Each part of a polling station at which any such division of the register is used shall be deemed to 5 be a separate polling station for the purpose of the appointment of polling agents by the candidates. 11.-(1) Notwithstanding anything in the Ballot Amendment Act, 1872, the returning officer shall cause the ballot as to stamppapers to be stamped or printed with the official mark ing of ballot papers with 10 prior to the polling, and so much of that Act as requires official each ballot paper to be stamped with the official mark mark. immediately before it is delivered to an elector and as requires the returning officer to provide each polling station with instruments for stamping on ballot papers 15 the official mark, shall cease to have effect. (2) The provisions of the Ballot Act, 1872, which are set out in the first column of Part II. of the Third Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments thereof specified in the second column of 20 that Schedule being amendments consequential on or incidental or supplemental to the provisions contained in subsection (1) of this section. 12. Paragraph (14) of section forty-three of the Polls in Representation of the People Act, 1918 (which provides Orkney and 25 that the poll at any general or bye-election for the Zetland. constituency of Orkney and Zetland shall remain open for two consecutive days), is hereby repealed. 13.—(1) This Part of this Act may be cited as the Short title, Representation of the People (Economy Provisions) Act, construc30 1926, and shall be construed as one with the Representa- tion, and tion of the People Acts, 1918 to 1922, and those Acts extent of and this Part of this Act may be cited together as the Representation of the People Acts, 1918 to 1926. (2) This Part of this Act shall not extend to Northern 35 Ireland. PART IV. Part III. s. 118 of 14.-(1) For the purpose of removing doubts it is Operation of hereby declared that the Board of Education shall not, Education 40 for the purpose of subsection (2) of section one hundred Act, 1921. and eighteen of the Education Act, 1921, be bound to 11 & 12 1 Provisions). A.D. 1926. recognise as expenditure in aid of which parliamentary grants should be made to a local education authority any expenditure which in the opinion of the Board is excessive having regard to the circumstances of the area of the authority or the general standard of expenditure 5 in other areas, or which in the opinion of the Board unreasonably exceeds any estimate of expenditure made by the authority. (2) The grants payable to such local education authorities for higher education as do not provide train- 10 ing colleges may be reduced in any year, in such manner as may be provided by regulations made by the Board of Education, by a sum not exceeding seventy thousand pounds in the aggregate, notwithstanding that the total sums payable out of moneys 15 provided by Parliament and out of the Local Taxation Account to those authorities, or any of them, in any year in aid of higher education would thereby be reduced to less than one-half of the net expenditure thereon of the authorities recognised by the Board for the purposes 20 of subsection (2) of the said section one hundred and eighteen. 66 The expression training colleges" in this subsection does not include training colleges in which only domestic subjects are taught. Any regulations made by the Board of Education under this subsection shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after they are made. 25 PART V. Establish ment of and com panies windingup fees, BANKRUPTCY AND COMPANIES WINDING-UP FEES. 30 15. (1) The dividends on investments under section ninety of the Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (in this Part of bankruptcy this Act referred to as "the bankruptcy investments dividends") and the fees and percentages charged for or in respect of proceedings under that Act (in this 35 Part of this Act referred to as "the bankruptcy fees "), and the dividends on investments under section two hundred and thirty of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908 (in this Part of this Act referred to as "the companies investments dividends") and the fees in respect 40 of proceedings under that Act in relation to the windingup of companies in England (in this Part of this Act account and application 4 & 5 Geo. 5. thereof. c. 59. 8 Edw. 7. c. 69. Provisions). referred to as "the companies winding-up fees") shall A.D. 1926. be paid into an account to be called "The Bankruptcy and Companies Winding-up (Fees) Account." (2) All sums which at the date of the commence5 ment of this Part of this Act are standing to the credit of any of the following accounts, namely, the accounts to which there have respectively been paid the bankruptcy investments dividends, the bankruptcy fees, the companies investments dividends and the companies winding10 up fees, shall be forthwith transferred to the Bankruptcy and Companies Winding-up (Fees) Account. 15 20 25 (3) The Treasury may in each financial year, out of the moneys standing to the credit of the Bankruptcy and Companies Winding-up (Fees) Account (a) in aid of the moneys voted by Parliament for (b) pay into the Exchequer a sum equal to the amount (4) An amount equal to the sums transferred under the foregoing provisions of this section to the Bankruptcy 30 and Companies Winding-up (Fees) Account, less the sum of one hundred thousand pounds, shall, as soon as may be after the passing of this Act, be paid out of that Account into the Exchequer in such manner as the Treasury direct, and thereafter the amount standing to the credit of that 35 Account on the thirty-first day of March in any financial year shall, after deducting therefrom an amount equal to one-third of the aggregate amount issued out of the said Account in that year under the provisions of the last preceding subsection, be paid into the Exchequer in such 40 manner as the Treasury direct. 16. In fixing the scales of the bankruptcy fees and Provision as of the companies winding-up fees regard shall be had to to fixing of the sum which it is anticipated will on an average be fees. |