(1)The permission to undertake private medical work (other than professional attendance) on the fees permitted by the following rules is subject to the general condition that no medical officer shall undertake any work on behalf of a private person or body or public body without the knowledge and sanction, whether general or special, of the local head of his department, or if he is himself the local head, of the head of his department, and sanction shall be subject to the condition that the work does not interfere with the official duties of the medical officer concerned.