‘File 28/1 K I Defence of oil field and refinery’ [‎239r] (477/684)

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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, JANUARY 1, 1942 35
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volunteer of his duties as a member of the civil defence
organisation to which he belonged at the time the injury
was sustained, or
(u) a war injury sustained by a gainfully occupied or other per
son compelled by Government order to be present in the
locality where (and at the time when) such injury was
sustained.
(f) “public funds’’ means money provided by the Central or a
Provincial Government or by a local authority.
(g) “qualifying injury” means an injury in respect of which a pay
ment under this Scheme may be made.
3. It is hereby declared that the organisations of persons specified in c,vl1 deience
the Schedule I to this Scheme are “civil defence organisations” for the for purposes*of
purposes of the Ordinance and this Scheme. scheme” 0 ® and
4. Subject to the provisions of this Scheme a payment under this injuries in res-
Scheme may be made in respect of any injury sustained during the awards may®be
continuance of the present hostilities which is— made -
(a) a war service injury sustained by a civil defence volunteer, or
(b) a war injury sustained by a gainfully occupied person, or
(c) a war injury sustained by any such other person or person of
such other class as may be notified in this behalf by tiie
Central Government, or
(d) a war injury causing death, sustained by a person substantially
dependant for his livelihood on a pension, annuity or other
income ceasing with his death.
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PART IT.
Temporary Allowances.
5. Where a qualifying injury has incapacitated a person for work for
a period of not less than seven consecutive days that person shall be anc ®-
entitled to be awarded in respect of that injury an allowance (in this
Scheme referred to as a temporary allowance) in accordance with the
following provisions of this Scheme.
6 . A temporary allowance shall be payable only for so long as the ££yment n or 0f
person to whom it has been awarded is incapacitated for work by the
injury in respect of which it has been awarded, and shall in no case be" 0 ™ 110 ®-
continued after the end of the sixth month from the date on which the
injury was sustained.
7. Temporary allowances shall be paid half-monthly in arrears on the Mode of pay
1st and 16th of each month. If the incapacity for work ceases during ment •
a half-monthly period, no payment shall be made unless during that
period the incapacity has existed for not less than seven days, in which
case the payment shall be proportionately reduced.
8 . Temporary allowances shall, subject to the provisions of clause 32 n ateso ftem
of this Scheme be payable at the following rates, namely:— porary aiiow-
^ ances.
(a) where the injury is one for which relief may be given on bhe
higher scale, at the half-monthly rate of nine rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. ;
(b) in the case of any other injury, at the half-monthly rate of six
rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. and twelve annas.
9. A temporary allowance shall cease to be payable to a person on Temporary
the date on which a disability pension under Part III of this Scheme tobedr^n 0 * 1
becomes payable to him with disability
pension.
10. Any payment by way of temporary allowance not drawn within Failure to
three months from the date on which it might first have been drawn shall
cease thereafter to be payable:
Provided that if the ( laims Officer is satisfied that there were good
and sufficient reasons for the failure to draw the payment, he may con
done the delay.
11 When a Person who, but for the provisions of clause 30 of this which
Scheme, would have been entitled to be awarded a temporary allowance clau *® 30
reaches the age of fifteen, before the end of the sixth month from the &PPli ° S '
date on which the qualifying injury was sustained, he shall, subject to
all the provisions of this Thapter, then become entitled to be awarded
a temporary allowance.
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