DOCTORS' INSURANCE FEES
; "GROSSEST ACT OF ILLEGALITY." By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Reo. February 13, 11.40 p.m.) London, February 13. Mr. Tim Healy (Independent Nationalist) in tho Houso'of Commons yesterday appealed to the Speaker not to certify to the Appropriation Bill providing for .£1,800,000 e.xtra remuneration for tho doctors under tho Insurance Act. as a money Bill on tho ground that it overrides tho,lnsurance Act's provision of a Stato contribution of two-ninths. Ho characterised tho Bill as one of tho grossest nets of illegality perpetrated under constitutional Government.
Tho Prime Minister, Mr. "Asqnith, announced that tho payment would bo regularised legislatively 'next session.
The Speaker promised to examine tho Bill before oertifying that it was a Money Bill and not requiring' tho consent of tho Houso of Lords boforo becoming law.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1674, 14 February 1913, Page 5
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129DOCTORS' INSURANCE FEES Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1674, 14 February 1913, Page 5
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