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‘File 28/1 K I Defence of oil field and refinery’ [243v] (486/684)
The record is made up of 1 file (340 folios). It was created in 5 Dec 1939-3 May 1942. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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44
THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, JANUARY 1, 1942
Medical
Authorities.
Applications
for temporary
allowances.
Applications
for disability
pensions.
Applications
tor family
pensions and
children’s
allowances.
General provi
sions for appli
cations to
Claims Officer.
Awards.
Power to call
or evidence,
etc.
Payment of
allowances and
pensions.
(e) It shall be the duty of the police to ascertain the name and other
particulars of all persons who are killed or who die before admission to
hospital and report the circumstances to the Claims Officer, and every
police officer shall make such further reports as the Claims Officer may
from time to time call upon him to do.
4. (a) The Provincial Government may constitute Medical Authorities,
for such areas and for such purposes of the Scheme and these Regulations
as it may deem necessary, and consisting of such number of persons as
it may think fit. Members of such Medical Authorities shall he regis
tered medical practitioners or Medical Officers of Government, an i
there is more than one member in any Authority, one of them shall be
appointed by the Provincial Government to be the President.
(b) The Claims Officer may refer any medical question to the Medical
Authority for its opinion.
(d) For the purposes of certification of incapacity for work the Claims
Officer shall ordinarily obtain a certificate from a medical officer not owe r
in rank than an Assistant Surgeon or such other medical practitioner as
may be specified by Provincial Government.
(d) The Claims Officer shall ordinarily refer all cases relating to the
grant of pensions to the Medical Authority.
5. An application for a temporary allowance shall be made in Form C
to the Claims Officer by the person who has sustained the qualifying injury,
through the person in charge of the hospital or dispensary where he
received or is receiving treatment, or if he did not receive treatment in
any hospital or dispensary, through the officer in charge of the First Aid
Post at which he received attention or the officer in charge of the Police
Station or First Aid Post to which the facts of his injury were reported.
6. (a) An application for a disability pension shall be made in Form D
to the Claims Officer by the person who has sustained the qualifying
injury, through the person in charge of the hospital or dispensary where
he last received or is receiving treatment, or if he has not been treated
in any hospital or dispensary, through the Medical Officer of Government
or the registered medical practitioner who last treated him for the injury,
and shall be countersigned by such person, officer or practitioner.
(b) No application for a disability pension shall be entertained unless
it is supported by a certificate of disability in Form E granted by a
Medical Authority; application therefor shall be made to the Medical
Authority for the area in which the injured person resides by the injured
person, or if he is incapable of making it himself, on his behalf by another
person.
7. An application for a family pension or for a family pension and
children’s allow’ance shall be made in Form F to the Claims Officer by the
person to whom payment thereof, if sanctioned, would be made under the
provisions of the Scheme.
8. Where the Claims Officer is satisfied that a person by whom an
application should be made is for sufficient reason incapable of making
the same, the Claims Officer may entertain an application made on such
person’s behalf by any other person.
9. The Claims Officer, on receiving an application for an allowance or
pension under the Scheme and after considering the reports and certi
ficates pertaining to the case and after obtaining such other evidence, if
any, as he considers necessary, shall make his award in Form G. He
shall briefly record separately the reasons for his award. A signed copy
of the award shall be given to the person to whom the award is made
and another copy shall be sent to the post office where the payment is to
be made.
10. The Claims Officer shall have the power to examine witnesses and
call for such evidence as he considers necessary in the same manner as a
civil court under the provisions of the Code of' Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act
V of 1908) and shall have, in particular, the powers conferred’ bv section
82 of that Code.
11. (a) All allowances and pensions under the Scheme shall be payable
at the post office within whose jurisdiction the payee ordinarily resides.
(b) All allowances and pensions shall be drawn within one month of
the date when they are due. The Postmaster concerned may, however,
at his discretion, make payment of full arrears within one year of the
due date. The Postmaster-General of the Circle within which the post
office is situated may at his discretion sanction the grant of anv arrears.
(c) All such payments shall from time to time be endorsed on the
pward by the Postmaster.
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The file comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the military defence of Bahrain’s oil refineries and oil fields during the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain (Hugh Weightman; Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban); the Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) (John S Black; Roger Anthony Kennedy; Milton H Lipp; Ward P Anderson).
The file includes:
- a copy of ‘General Instructions for the Defence Organisation of the Bahrain Petroleum Company’, dated December 1939 (ff 9-52), with sections focusing on: 1) the internal and external areas of the refinery; 2) the personnel camps at Awali and Zellaq; 3) fields and wells; information on inventories of equipment, and specific instructions for patrols and guards;
- correspondence from BAPCO representatives to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. relating to: the perceived threat to Bahrain and to Company property, and defensive measures to be taken; assessments of the threat of internal sabotage, local uprisings, bombardment from sea or air (ff 68-71); questions of responsibility for and efficacy of defensive measures being taken in Bahrain; questions of the legal aspects (liability, compensation, War Risk Insurance) of damage to Company property from enemy attack, and volunteers who become casualties while defending Company property, including printed copies of the Gazetteer of India War Injuries Ordinance , No. VII of 1941 (ff 235-237) and the War Injuries (Amendment) Ordinance , No. I of 1942 (ff 238-249);
- correspondence exchanged, and the notes and minutes of meetings held between senior Government officials (including the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Air Vice Marshal at Air Headquarters in Iraq) on the provision of resources for the defence of Bahrain, including discussion of the availability and use of manpower supplied by BAPCO;
- a number of monthly progress reports in 1941 on the Bahrain defence scheme, prepared by the Defence Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (ff 143-144, ff 146-147, ff 162-164, ff 177-179), referring to: defence force recruitment; the volunteer defence force; general morale and attitude of recruits; equipment supplies; anti-aircraft defence measures;
- in 1941, plans for the control of telephone exchanges and lines during emergencies, with lists of telephone links to be maintained during an emergency (ff 182-183);
- plans and proposals for the protection of BAPCO property in the event of enemy action, including: in 1942, BAPCO proposals for the protection of the oil field in case it falls into enemy hands, by the sealing of wells with concrete (ff 270-294); a military report on Passive Air Defence (PAD) at the BAPCO refinery, dated 28 April 1942, focussing chiefly on plans to construct protective sheathing around the refinery tanks (ff 304-323).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (340 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 326-341) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 342; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 3-341; these numbers are also written in pencil, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/R/15/2/661
- Title
- ‘File 28/1 K I Defence of oil field and refinery’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 52v:56v, 59r:67v, 72r:87v, 91r:91v, 93r:98v, 100r:115v, 117r:127v, 129r:150v, 152r:153v, 157r:175v, 177r:184v, 187r:187v, 189r:190v, 193r:193v, 195r:200v, 204r:207v, 209r:211v, 213r:217v, 220r:220v, 222r:270v, 272r:276v, 279r:298v, 301r:309v, 311r:341v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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