Internal Security (Injury Allowances) Regulations

Internal Security Act

(Chapter 143, Section 72)

Internal Security (Injury Allowances) Regulations¹

¹Extended to Singapore by the Modification of Laws (Internal Security and Public Order) (Singapore) Order 1963 — L.N. 231 of 16.9.63.

Rg 3

G.N. No. S 195/1960

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[16th September 1963]

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Internal Security (Injury Allowances) Regulations.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“officer” includes a Judge of the High Court and a police officer of any rank;

“pensionable emoluments” means either the substantive salary attached to a pensionable office or, in the case of an officer serving in a pensionable class, the substantive salary payable to that officer as an officer of such class, together, in either case, with any personal pensionable allowance and other pensionable allowance but exclusive, in either case, of acting pay or other allowance;

“pensionable office” means an office or class of office which has been declared to be pensionable under any written law in force in Singapore regulating the grant of pensions, gratuities or other allowances in respect of past services of officers;

“Regular Police Force” means the Singapore Police Force;

“public service” means service in a civil capacity under the Government;

“salary” includes any personal pensionable allowance, expatriation allowance and any other pensionable allowance.

Application

3. These Regulations shall apply to any officer in the public service who is injured —

(a)	in the actual discharge of his duty;
(b)	without his own default; and
(c)	by some injury specifically attributable to the nature of his duty and caused in a security area, as a direct result of and attributable to the declaration of such an area as a security area by proclamation under section 48 of the Act.

Allowance to officers retiring by reason of injury sustained

4. Subject as hereinafter provided, any officer to whom these Regulations apply and who retires by reason of his injury may be granted —

(a)

if he is serving in an office which is not a pensionable office or if he is serving in a pensionable office but is not eligible for a pension in respect of his service, an annual allowance according to the degree of impairment in his capacity to contribute to his support, not exceeding the proportion, specified in the Table contained in the First Schedule, of his annual salary at the date of his injury; and

(b)

if he is serving in a pensionable office and is eligible for a pension in respect of his service, an annual allowance according to the degree of impairment of his capacity to contribute to his support, not exceeding the proportion, specified in the Table contained in the First Schedule, of his annual pensionable emoluments at the date of his injury.

Awards in special cases

5.—(1) In any case in which an officer, to whom these Regulations apply, retires wholly or partly on account of age or infirmity, but his capacity to contribute to his support is, in the opinion of the President, impaired by reason of his injury, the President may make such award as he may think reasonable.

(2) If, for the purpose of assessing the amount of any allowance to any officer to whom these Regulations apply, the degree of permanent impairment of his capacity to contribute to his support is in doubt, the Public Service Commission may make a provisional award, to have effect until such time as the degree of permanent impairment can be finally determined.

(3) Where any officer, to whom these Regulations apply, is unable to follow his employment by reason of his injury, but there is doubt whether or not he will retire by reason thereof, the Public Service Commission in any case in which that person either is not eligible for sick pay or is eligible for sick pay at a rate which is less than the rate of annual allowance which might be awarded to him under these Regulations if he retires by reason of his injury, may grant to him such provisional allowance as the Commission may think reasonable.

(4) An annual allowance granted to any officer, to whom these Regulations apply, shall not, together with any pension for which he is otherwise qualified, exceed five-sixths of his pensionable emoluments at the date of the injury in respect of which such annual allowance is granted.

Award where officer entitled to workmen’s compensation

6.—(1) Where it appears that an officer to whom regulation 4 or 5 applies would, but for this regulation, in respect of the same injury both be entitled to compensation under any written law relating to workmen’s compensation for the time being in force in Singapore or any part thereof and eligible to receive an allowance or other award under those regulations, he shall be required to elect whether he will receive compensation under the written law or an allowance or other award under those regulations. If such person elects to receive compensation under the written law, he shall receive no allowance or other award under those regulations.

(2) Regulations 4 and 5 shall not apply in the case of an officer employed or selected for employment by the Government on or after 1st April 1953, who, in consequence of injury, is entitled to compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Cap. 354).

Awards to dependants of deceased injured officers

7.—(1) If any officer, to whom these Regulations apply, dies within 7 years of the date of his injury and as a direct result thereof, there may be paid —

(a)	to his widow (if she was married to him at the date of his injury), so long as she remains unmarried and of good character;
(b)	to his mother, if wholly dependent upon him for her support at the date of his death; and
(c)	in respect of each of his children, under the age of 18 years, if a male, or under the age of 18 years and unmarried, if a female, who, in the case of legitimate children, were born not later than 9 months after the date of his injury, and, in the case of stepchildren, illegitimate children or adopted children, were wholly or mainly dependent upon the deceased for support and were born or adopted before the date of his injury,

an annual allowance, payable as from the date of the death of the deceased officer or, in the case of a posthumous child, from the date of its birth, not exceeding, as the case may be, the proportion, specified in the second column of the Table contained in the Second Schedule, of the annual salary or annual pensionable emoluments, as the case may be, of the deceased at the date of his injury, but not less than such amount as may, from time to time, be specified by the Public Service Commission:

Provided that —

(a)	where the deceased leaves a widow to whom an award has been granted and who dies during the continuance of an allowance in respect of any child, the rate of allowance in respect of the child shall, as from the date of the death of the widow, be double the rate which would otherwise be payable under this paragraph in respect of the child;
(b)	the allowance in respect of any child shall cease to be payable when he or she attains the age of 18 years or, being a female, marries under that age; and
(c)	the aggregate of the allowances payable in respect of children shall not exceed one-fourth of the annual salary or pensionable emoluments of the deceased at the date of the injury.

(2) Nothing in this regulation shall permit the grant of any allowance in respect of a stepchild, illegitimate child or adopted child at a higher rate than one-twenty-fourth of the annual salary or pensionable emoluments of the deceased injured person at the date of his injury unless the Public Service Commission in any particular case otherwise directs.

(3) In this regulation, “adopted”, in relation to a child, means adopted in a manner recognised by law.

(4) This regulation shall not apply in the case of the death of an officer if his dependants, as defined in any written law relating to workmen’s compensations for the time being in force in Singapore or any part thereof, are entitled to compensation under the written law.

Awards to injured women and dependants of women who die as the result of injury

8. References in these Regulations to a widow or her husband shall, in their application to a woman being an officer to whom these Regulations apply, be read as references to a widower or his wife, provided that nothing herein shall permit the grant of an annual allowance to a widower, or to children, in the case where the deceased leaves a widower, unless the widower was permanently incapacitated and was dependent upon the deceased at the date of her death.

Regulation 18 of Pensions Regulations to cease to have effect

9. During the continuance in force of these Regulations, the provisions of regulation 18 of the Pensions Regulations shall, in so far as they affect officers to whom these Regulations apply, cease to have effect.

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