24 ITAI.Y - INSURANCE AND THRIFT 



at the offices of the insuring institutions. Each such committee is compos- 

 ed of a president nominated by the insuring institution, a representative 

 of the farms and forestry enterprises and a representative of the labourers, 

 the former representative being chosen from a list proposed by the oigani- 

 zations of agricultural employers, the latter from one proposed bytheorga- 

 zations of agricultural labourers. Where there are no such organizations 

 or where, in the judgement of the Ministries of Industry, Commerce and 

 I/abour and of Agriculture, they do not sufficiently represent the two classes 

 to designate representatives, the choice of the latter will be made by these 

 ministries, after they have heard on the subject the delegates of the agri- 

 cultural organizations of employers and labourers represented in the High- 

 er Council of Ivabour. 



All controversies as to a right to indemnity and as to payment thereof, 

 including those on the indemnity itself, will be settled by the Commissioni 

 conipartimentali arhitrali (Arbritrating Area Commissions), which will be 

 instituted at the headquarters of every insurance area near the tribunal 

 if there be one, otherwise near the praetorate. By royal decree there may 

 also be constituted more than one arbitrating commissions for the same in- 

 suring area if it comprise more than one province or if special local condi- 

 tions or other circumstances create a recognized necessity for them. 



Bach commission is composed of five members : a) a tribunal judge, an- 

 nually chosen by the first president of the Court of Appeal, who is chair- 

 man ; but where the headquarters of the insurance area or other town tn 

 which a tribunal is situated is not the seat of a tribunal, the praetor of the 

 district in which it is situated presides over the tribunal ; b) two health of- 

 ficers not receiving pay from the insuring institutions ; c) a representative 

 of persons subject to the obligation to insure and a representative of the 

 insured persons. 



The decisions of these arbitrating commissions are liable to revision, 

 where the disputes are more important before a Central Commission insti- 

 tuted in Rome at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and I/abour, and 

 composed of a councillor of appeal, a president, two superior officials belong- 

 ing, rCvSpectively, to the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and I,abour and the 

 Ministry of Agriculture, two health officers having special scientific and pro- 

 fessional aptitutes for business concerned with the accidents of labour and 

 not paid by the insuring institutions, a representative of the persons sub- 

 ject to the obligation to insure and a representative of the insured persons. 

 There is no appeal from the decisions of this commission. 



Professional advocates are not heard by the Arbitrating Area Commis- 

 sions and the Central Commission. The protection of those interested 

 may be entrusted only to the institutions of patronage and assistance which 

 exist for the benefit of labourers who are victims of accidents and their re- 

 presentatives, and which have been approved by the Ministry of Industry, 

 Commerce and lyabour. Engagements entered into by those having a right 

 to indemnities with intermediaries, who are paid to take an interest in the 

 liqmdation or payment of indemnities, are declared null and void, engage- 

 ments entered into with the aforesaid institutions being excepted. It is also 



