"ملف 28/1 K I دفاع حقل النفط ومصفاة التكرير" [ظ‎‎٢‎٤‎٣] (٦٨٤/٤٨٦)

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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.