THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 6, 1933.
(2) Indian subordinate officers may be granted leave on alternate Saturday afternoons and Sundays, also òn Good Fri- day and Christmas Day or days in lieu, also on Government Holidays as convenient, and on other special occasions as the Superintendent may approve.
3. Rule 119, amended as appears in Government Notifi- cation No. 497 of 1931, is rescinded and the following rule is substituted therefor,----
119.-(1) In all cases when a subordinate officer is absent from duty on account of any injury or sickness received as a result of the performance of his duty, he shall be entitled to free medical treatment in hospital and no stoppages of any kind shall be made from his pay or allowances other than those granted to compensate for expenses incurred while on duty, so long as he is certified by a Government Medical Officer to be unfit for duty on account of the injury or sick- ness so received or incurred.
(2) When the sickness of a subordinate officer is caused by intemperance, or is certified by the Prison Medical Officer to be due to venereal disease which has become aggravated by concealment, or to sickness or injury which is purposely self inflicted, or is the result of negligence or disobedience of orders, he shall be provided with medical attendance, medical comforts, diet and accommodation in hospital, free, but his pay shall be stopped for so long as he is absent from duty.
(3) When any subordinate officer received into hospital for observation is subsequently certified to be malingering, he will receive no pay for the period during which he is under observation, and all hospital expenses and charges incidental to such observation shall be paid by such officer.
(4) In cases of sickness other than as stated in paragraph (2) of this rule, all subordinate officers may receive sick leave in accordance with the General Orders of the Hong Kong Government.
(5) All subordinate officers shall go into hospital when ordered to do so by the Prison Medical Officer, and remain in hospital so long as the Medical Officer in charge of the Hospital shall direct, and they shall obey the hospital regula- tions.
(6) All subordinate officers may obtain free medical at- tendance for themselves, their wives and children in their homes when the Superintendent is satisfied that they are unable to go to hospital for medical advice and treatment.
(7) All subordinate officers and their wives, and their children under eighteen years of age, while patients in a Gov- ernment Hospital are entitled to free treatment but, except as provided for in paragraph (2) of this rule, will be charged maintenance in accordance with the scale laid down in the General Orders of the Hong Kong Government in force at the time.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
4th January, 1933.
D. W. TRATMAN,
Clerk of Councils.
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