RESTORING THE DISABLED.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16210, 13 May 1918, Page 4

RESTORING THE DISABLED.

NEW AVAR PENSIONS REGULATIONS.

Additional regulations under the War Pensions Act were gazetted on Thursday. They provide that where a partially disabled member of the Forces undergoing medical or curative treatment is 111 regular employment, and tor the purposes of sucn treatment has to airsenc uiiiiseit iiom work, lie may mate application to any JUcg-suur 01 •fensionb, or uircuu to tuc ol i'eiisiona, ior an allowance uuaer subsection (,2j 01 sec won i or uio Amenament .act, 19iV, to covci- any loss of wages or out-01-pociiet expeuseo incurred in connexion witu. tue said treatment.

Wnere a disabled member of the Forces who Has applied lor and been planted a pension is, uii the uuvice ot a ->icuical i>oard, recommended u> undergo or contuiuo medical or curative treatment, and such advice is not accepted, and the Director-Geucral of Medical i&ervices certifies that suen treatment is available without expense to the member, and that the rerusal to accept the same is unreasonable, tuo Oomniibsiouer of Pensions snail call upon him to show cause why the treatment ottered should not bo accepted, and -in tho event of the refusal being persisted in the War Pensions Board shall determine what portion, if any, of the pension payable in respcct or the disablement snail be withheld.

Jf, after treatment lias been accepted, the disab.ed member of the Forces in receipt of a pension refuses to carry out the treatment prescribed, or acts in such a manner as 10 retard his recovery, the Commissioner of Pensions shall forthwith stop payment of tho pension pending the decision of the War Pensions .Board.

Whore a disabled member of the Forces in receipt of a pension is, under authority from the Director-General of Medical Services, an inmate of a hospital or other institutiou, tho maximum amount that shall be paid to him by way of pension either directly or by arrangement with the. authorities of the institution shall bo 10s a week, and any balance shall be retained and paid to him on his discharge from the institution, or paid, at the discretion of tho War Pensions Board, to the wife or such other dependant as may bo determined.