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fhall, in flefaiilt of agreement, be settled by arbitration
under this Act.
(13.) Where any weekly payment has been continued for
not less than six months, the liability therefore may, on the
application by or on behalf of the employer, be redeemed by
the payment of a lump sum, to be settled, in default of
agreement, by arbitration under this Act, and such lump
sum may be ordered by the committee or arbitrator to be
invested or otherwise applied as above mentioned.
(14.) A weekly payment, or a sum paid by way of redemp-
tion thereof, shall not be capable of being assigned, charged,
or attached, and shall not pass to any other person by
operation of law, nor shall any claim be set off against the same.
(15.) Where a scheme certified under this Act provides for
payment of compensation by a friendly society, the provi-
sions of the proviso to the first subsection of Section eight,
section sixteen, and section forty-one of the Friendly Societies
Act, 1896, shall not apply to such society in respect of such
scheme.
(16.) In the application of this schedule to Scotland, the
expression " registrar of the county court " means "sheriff
clerk of the county," and 'judge of the county court" means
" sheriff."
(17.) In the application of this Act to Ireland the pro-
visions of the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877,
with respect to money deposited in the Post Office Savings
Bank under that Act ^hall apply to money invested in the
Post Office Savin o^s Bank under this Act.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
Arbiteation.
The following provisims shall apply for settling any
matter which under this Act is to be settled by arbitration —
(1.) If any committee, representative of an employer and
his workmen exists with power to settle matters under this
Act in the case of the employer and workmen, the matter
shall, unless eiiher party objects, by notice in writing sent to
the other party before the committee meet to consider the
matter, be settled by the arbitration of such committee, or be
referred by them in their discretion to arbitration as herein-
after provided.
(2.) If either party so objects, or there is no such com.mittee,
or the committee so refers the matter or fails to settle the