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Post- Office Insurance for Labourers. 
A written notice of recovery to be given, under a penalty of 
6c?. a week in case of delay. 
No sickness-pay shall be due to any member who is suffering 
from any disorder or disease which he had, or which he knew 
himself by previous experience to be more than commonly 
subject to, and which he, on admission, wilfully concealed. No 
sickness-pay shall be due to any member on account of sickness 
or injury arising out of profligacy, drunkenness, quarrelling, or any 
act contrary to law. No sickness-pay to be due to any member 
who is under confinement for any offence against the law. 
Sickness-pay shall not be due to any member who enters Her 
Majesty's Army or Navy, but all moneys paid by him, with the 
exception of the first monthly contribution, shall be returned on 
his entering such service. 
Sickness-pay shall not be due to any member who changes 
his occupation for one in which the risk of health is known to 
be higher than that insurable by the Post-Office, unless notice 
of such change has been given, and the value of the risk added 
to his monthly contributions. 
Sickness-pay shall be suspended when any member refuses to 
be seen by any officer appointed to visit him by the Postmaster- 
General or to answer reasonable questions respecting his health. 
It shall be suspended when the sick member shall have 
been drinking in or on the premises of any public-house or beer- 
shop, or shall have been intoxicated in any case. 
It shall be suspended and be liable to forfeiture, together 
with all rights of the insurance, in case of an attempt to impose 
a claim on the officer ; and in the event of such claim being 
proved fraudulent, and a payment made on it, the member shall 
be liable to proceedings. 
Half-pay sickness shall be a state of inability, by reason of 
bodily injury or sickness, to engage in, or to follow, the usual 
occupation, and shall be permitted to a member on his being in | 
a fair way of recovery from sickness, for which he had claimed j 
full-pay. And whenever there shall be a change from full to 
half-pay sickness, the member shall give notice of the same, 
otherwise he shall not receive pay for such sickness. 
When any member shall have received weekly full sickness-pay 
for 52 weeks in the aggregate, he shall not be entitled to more 
than such an allowance weekly as the Postmaster-General may 
allot to him. 
Burial-Moueij Insurance. 
* If any false statement concerning health and constitution shall 
have been wilfully made at the time of making an insurance, 
♦ To be printed at the back of the Policy. 
