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(7) Every medical certificate shall, in addition to specifying the number of days on which, in the opinion of the medical practitioner by whom it is issued, the employee was, is or will be, as the case may be, unfit for work, specify the nature of the sickness or injury on account of which, in the opinion of the medical practitioner, the employee was, is or will be, as the case may be, unfit for work and, in the case of a medical certificate produced by an employee for the purposes of subsection (5A), the medical certificate shall, if so required by his employer, contain or be accompanied by a brief record of the investiga- tion carried out and the treatment prescribed by the medical practitioner. (Amended, 57 of 1983, s. 5)

Recognized scheme of medical treatment

34. (1) The Director may recognize for the purposes of this Ordinance a scheme of medical treatment operated by an employer, if he is satisfied that each employee, who is qualified to be paid sickness allowance by the employer by whom the scheme is operated, is provided, without expense to the employee, by a medical practitioner with such medical treatment as an out-patient as the Director considers reasonable.

(2) The Director may, having given to the employer by whom the scheme is operated not less than 1 month's notice of his intention so to do, withdraw his recognition of any scheme of medical treatment.

(3) Whenever the Director has recognized, or has withdrawn his recogni- tion of, any scheme of medical treatment, he shall publish a notice thereof in the Gazette.

Rate of sickness allowance

35. (1) Subject to subsection (3), the daily rate of sickness allowance shall be a sum equivalent to two-thirds of the wages which the employee would have earned if he had worked on the sickness day. (Amended, 48 of 1984, s. 15)

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) and subject to subsection (3), where an employee is employed on piece rates or where the daily wages of an employee vary from day to day, the sickness allowance shall be a sum equivalent to two-thirds of the average daily wage earned by the employee, and for the purposes of this subsection the average daily wage shall be the average of the daily wages earned by the employee on each day on which he worked during every complete wage period, comprising not less than 28 days and not more than 31 days, immediately preceding or expiring on the first sickness day. (Replaced, 48 of 1984, s. 15)

(3) Where a contract of employment of an employee is terminated, sickness allowance payable under section 33(4C) shall be calculated in accord- ance with subsection (1) or (2) whichever is applicable to the employee at the time his contract of employment is terminated. (Added, 48 of 1984, s. 15)

(Amended, 1 of 1977, s. 3)

Time for payment of sickness allowance

36. (1) Except in the case of an employee who is normally paid his wages daily, sickness allowance shall be paid to the employee or his duly appointed agent in the manner and at the place specified in section 26 not later than the day on which the employee is next paid his wages.