National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 165.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this fifteenth day of November, 1944.

W. DUGAN

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. M. FRASER

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations. 

1. Regulation 2 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Administration.

“2.—(1.) These Regulations, except regulation 36a, shall be administered by the Minister of State for Health.

“(2.) Regulation 36a of these Regulations shall be administered by the Minister of State for Social Services.”.

Medical Equipment Control Committee.

2. Regulation 7 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is amended by inserting, after paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.), the following paragraphs:—

“(aa) a representative of the Department of the Navy;

“(ab) a representative of the Department of the Army;

“(ac) a representative of the Department of Air;”.

3. After regulation 36 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

Compensation to members of Emergency Medical Service in case of accident.

“36a.—(1.) Where any member of the Emergency Medical Service dies or becomes incapacitated, and the death or incapacity is directly attributable to his having sustained a service injury or war injury, the

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16th November, 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1943, No. 51, as amended by Statutory Rules 1943, No. 204; and 1944, Nos. 24, 67 and 204.

3222.—Price 3d.

 

Commonwealth shall pay to the member or to his dependants, or to both, compensation by way of injury allowance, pension, allowance for attendant, or lump sum, at the rates, and subject to the conditions, prescribed by the National Security (Civil Constructional Corps Compensation) Regulations, and those Regulations shall, subject to this regulation, so far as they are applicable, apply in relation to members of the Emergency Medical Service in like manner as they apply to members of the Civil Constructional Corps, and a member of the Emergency Medical Service shall be deemed to be an ‘eligible person’ for the purposes of those Regulations, and shall be entitled to medical benefits and funeral allowance in accordance with those Regulations.

“(2.) Where any member of the Emergency Medical Service sustains a service injury or war injury, notice thereof shall forthwith be forwarded by or on behalf of the member to the Executive Officer of the State Medical Co-ordination Committee in the State in which the injury was sustained, and the Executive Officer shall, as soon as practicable, and in any event not later than fourteen days after the receipt of the notice, forward to the Deputy Commissioner in that State a report, in accordance with a form approved by the Director-General of Social Services, setting out full particulars of the circumstances under which the injury was sustained.

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation—

‘Deputy Commissioner’ has the same meaning as in the National Security (Civil Constructional Corps Compensation) Regulations;

‘service injury’ means a personal injury by accident which is sustained by a member of the Emergency Medical Service—

(a) in the course of his duties as a member of the Emergency Medical Service and which is directly attributable to those duties and is not due to his serious or wilful misconduct; or

(b) without his own default or wilful act, while travelling to or from duty;

‘travelling to or from duty’ has the same meaning as in the National Security (Civil Constructional Corps Compensation) Regulations;

‘war injury’ has the same meaning as in the National Security (Civil Constructional Corps Compensation) Regulations.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston,