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Summary of Sections. 16, 17, 22 and. 77.
Sec. 16.—For the purpose of giving sanatorium benefit Insurance
Committees are required to make arrangements to the satisfaction
of the Insurance Commissioners:
1. For the treatment of insured persons suffering from tuberculosis
or other disease in sanatoria and other institutions approved
by the Local Government Board with persons and authorities
(other than Poor Law authorities) having such institutions.
2. For the treatment of such persons otherwise than in sanatoria
or other institutions with persons and Local Authorities
(other than Poor Law authorities) approved of by the Local Government
Board.
The money available for sanatorium benefit in each year will
be (a) One shilling and threepence for each insured person in the
County or County Borough from the Benefits Fund of the Act;
(b) One penny for each insured person from moneys provided by
Parliament. But this latter sum may be devoted by the Insurance
Commissioners to the purposes of research.
3. "An insured person shall only be entitled to sanatorium
benefit on the recommendation of the Insurance Committee.
4. An Insurance Committee may defray partly or wholly the
expenses of conveying an insured person to or from a sanatorium
or other institution.
Sec. 17.—(a) The Insurance Committee of any County or
County Borough may extend sanatorium benefit to the dependents
of insured persons ; (b) If the amounts available during any year
to meet the expenses for sanatorium benefit to insured persons
and their dependents are insufficient, the estimate of expenditure
may be sent to the Treasury and the County Council, who may
sanction the excess; (c) The Treasury and the County Council
having sanctioned such excess of expenditure shall each be liable
to pay one-half of such excess.