Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 113.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1924.

[TWENTY-SEVENTH AMENDMENT, 1925]

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1924, in pursuance and exercise or the authority conferred upon it by the said Act, and subject to the approval of the Governor-General, hereby makes the following amendment of the Regulations, such amendment to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of June, 1925.

C. B. B. White, Chairman,	Board of Commissioners.
W. J. Skewes, Commissioner,
W. J. Clemens, Deputy Commissioner,

Approved in Executive Council this eighth day of July, 1925.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

C. W. C. MARR,

for Prime Minister.

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Amendment of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1923, No. 93, as amended to this date.)

After regulation 98 the following regulation is inserted:—

Reimbursement of fares—illness or accident— remote districts.

“98a. (1) Where an officer is stationed in a locality at which there is no resident medical practitioner and illness of, or accident to, the officer or his wife or children under sixteen years of age necessitates removal for medical attention or visit of a medical practitioner, and the cost of transport for such purpose exceeds £3, the Chief Officer may authorize reimbursement to the officer of the amount in excess.

(2) In any case of removal where the circumstances necessitate the sick or injured person being accompanied by an attendant, cost of transport shall include the conveyance of attendant.

(3) No claim for reimbursement shall be approved unless accompanied by a medical certificate that the removal or visit for medical attention was necessary. The medical certificate shall state the nature of the illness and, if the Chief Officer is of opinion that the illness or injury was due to circumstances within the person’s own control he may refuse payment.

(4) Cost of transport shall mean only the annual charge incurred in steamer, rail, motor or other fares inclusive of return journey, or mileage rate, inclusive of return journey, in obtaining the nearest medical aid, and shall net include any other expenses incurred en route.

(5) This regulation shall not apply to officers stationed at lighthouses who shall be subject to such conditions as to reimbursement of expenses incurred by reason of injury or illness as are determined by the Board.”

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