S.I. No. 342/1936 - Connaught Rangers Pensions (Expenses and Allowances) Regulations, 1936.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1936. No. 342.

CONNAUGHT RANGERS PENSIONS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS, 1936.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) Section 20 of the Connaught Rangers (Pensions) Act, 1936 (No. 37 of 1936), that payments for travelling expenses and for subsistence allowance may, in accordance with regulations made under sub-section (2) of the said section, be made by the Minister for Defence, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, to the persons mentioned in the said sub-section (1), and it is enacted by the said sub-section (2) that the said Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, by order male regulations prescribing the amounts of the payments which may be made for travelling expenses and subsistence allowance under the said sub-section (1) and the circumstances in which and the conditions under which such payments may be made.

NOW, I, FRANK AIKEN, Minister for Defence, with the consent of the Minister for Finance testified by his signature to these Regulations, and in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sub-section (2) of Section 20 of the Connaught Rangers (Pensions) Act, 1936 (No. 37 of 1936), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order and make the following regulations, that is to say :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Connaught Rangers Pensions (Expenses and Allowances) Regulations, 1936.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of these Regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. In these regulations—

the expression " the Act " means the Connaught Rangers (Pensions) Act, 1936 (No. 37 of 1936) ;

the expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Defence ; the expression " the Pensions Board " means the Army Pensions Board.

4. The amounts of the payments for travelling expenses and subsistence allowance which may be made by the Minister out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas to the following persons, that is to say, applicants for wound pensions, wound gratuities and disability pensions under Sections 5 and 6 of the Act when attending in the City or County of Dublin for medical examination by direction of the Pensions Board, and persons attending in the City or County of Dublin as witnesses before the Pensions Board pursuant to a summons by that Board, exercising functions under the Act, and the circumstances in which and the conditions under which such payments may be made shall be as follows, that is to say :—

TRAVELLING EXPENSES.

(a) Such applicants and witnesses will as a general rule be expected to travel by train, tram or omnibus whenever available and by whichever of the said means of public transport is the cheapest;

(b) where public transport is available payments may be made as follows, that is to say :—

(i) in the case of travel by rail—

Applicants—third class return fare.

Witnesses—professional, first class return fare ;

non-professional, third class return fare ;

(ii) in the case of travel by tram or omnibus—applicants and witnesses—fares paid :

(c) where public conveyance is not available for the whole or any part of a journey which an applicant or witness is obliged to travel, or the Minister considers that the circumstances of the case were such as to warrant the non-user of public conveyance reasonable travelling expenses may be allowed.

Every claim under this head in respect of hired transport where the amount claimed exceeds 5s. shall be supported by vouchers.

SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCES.

(a) Where the period of necessary absence from home is eight hours or more and less than sixteen hours, subsistence allowance may be paid at the following rates—

(b) where the period of necessary absence from home is sixteen hours or more and less than twenty-four hours subsistence allowance may be paid at the following rates—

(c) where the period of necessary absence from home is twenty-four hours or more, subsistence allowance may be paid at the following rates for each completed period of twenty-four hours :—

together with, in the case of any broken time (not being less than eight hours) over and above twenty-four hours or a multiple thereof, extra subsistence allowance for such broken time in accordance with whichever of the scales (a) and (b) of this Head is appropriate.

5. Where in any particular case an applicant is by direction of the Pensions Board detained in a Military Hospital for the purpose of undergoing a medical examination there by direction of the Pensions Board, and subsistence allowance could be paid under the foregoing paragraph, so much of such subsistence allowance as bears to the whole of such subsistence allowance the same proportion as the period of such detention bears to the entire period in respect of which such subsistence allowance was payable, shall be appropriated towards the maintenance of such applicant in such Military Hospital during such detention.

Given under my Seal of Office, this 12th day of

October, 1936.

I consent to the foregoing regulations.