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The Punjab School Education Board (Medical Attendance) Regulations, 1979

PUNJAB
India

The Punjab School Education Board (Medical Attendance) Regulations, 1979

Rule THE-PUNJAB-SCHOOL-EDUCATION-BOARD-MEDICAL-ATTENDANCE-REGULATIONS-1979 of 1979

  • Published on 22 October 1979
  • Commenced on 22 October 1979
  • [This is the version of this document from 22 October 1979.]
  • [Note: The original publication document is not available and this content could not be verified.]
The Punjab School Education Board (Medical Attendance) Regulations, 1979Published vide Punjab Government Notification No. PSEB-Pb/EP-79/3800 22.10.1979.Part-I Preliminary

1. Short title.

- These regulations shall be called the Punjab School Education Board (Medical Attendance) Regulations, 1979.

2. Commencement.

- These shall come into force at once.

3. Extent of application.

- These shall apply to all the officers and employees of the Punjab School Education Board.

4. Definitions.

- In these regulations, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context :(a)[ "Employee" means any person appointed permanently/temporarily/on contract basis/on ad hoc basis to any post in connection with the affairs of the Punjab School Education Board. A person employed on part-time basis will not be considered an employee for the purposes of these regulations.] [Substituted vide Notification No. PSEB-Estt-EA-6/84/2054 w.e.f. 14.6.1984 w.e.f. 2.11.1979.](b)"Family" shall include (a) wife/husband, (b) unmarried son, (c) unmarried or widowed sister, (d) parents, (e) unmarried brother, and (f) unmarried/widowed daughter ordinarily residing with the employee and wholly dependent on him.Note. - (1) For the purpose of allowing reimbursement of the medical expenses incurred by the employee on the treatment of their entirely dependent parents, as are otherwise admissible under the Rules the employee concerned should furnish a certificate to the competent authority on the following lines:-"Certified that his/her father or mother, as the case may be is solely dependent on him/her and that he/she has no source of income of his/her own what-so-ever."
(2)No member of the employee's family who is in service elsewhere or is engaged in any business will be allowed the benefit of free medical aid.
(c)[ "Medical Attendant" means the the Medical Officer-in-Charge of the Board Dispensary or any Medical Officer of a Government Dispensary/Hospital or any other private medical practitioner approved by the Board.] [Substituted vide Punjab Government Notification No. PSEB-Estt.-SEA-86/213 dated 27.1.1986.]
(d)"Salary" means the amount drawn monthly by an employee of the Board as pay including special pay, personal pay, and dearness pay and any other emoluments specially classed as pay by the competent authority.
(e)"Sanction Authority" means the authority to whom the powers to sanction re-imbursement of medical charges under these regulations have been given.
(f)Other terms and expressions shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in the Punjab School Education Board Act, 1969 or the regulations made thereunder.
Part-II General

5.

[All employees of the Board and their families will be entitled to free medical aid from the Board's dispensary or any other Government dispensary/hospital or a private medical clinic, as may be decided by the Board.] [Substituted vide Notification No. PSEB-Estt-SEA-86/213 dated 27.1.1986.]

6.

Medicines for the employees and their families will, as far as possible, be stocked at the Board's dispensary in accordance with the list prepared in advance.The Medical Officer-in-charge of the Board's dispensary shall, however, be empowered to make purchases of any particular medicines from the open market when in his opinion the prescription of such medicines is necessary in a certain case.

7.

When the Medical Officer of the Board certifies that arrangements for the treatment of a patient are not available in the Board's dispensary and refers him to a Government Hospital, all the expenses on treatment including laboratory examination, X-ray, etc., as out-door or in-door patient in the hospital will be reimbursed by the Board.

8.

On being referred by the Medical Officer of the Board to the General Hospital, Chandigarh, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Examination and Research, Chandigarh or any other hospital in Punjab or New Delhi for X-ray, screening, laboratory examination, electro-cardiography, etc., all the expenses incurred by an employee will be re-imbursed by the Board.

9.

If a Board's employee falls ill while on official duty at station other than his headquarter he will be re-imbursed actual expenses of medical treatment on the following conditions :-
(1)The employee produces a certificate from a Registered Medical Practitioner, if the expenses do not exceed Rs. 20; and
(2)The employee obtains medical certificate from a doctor employed in a State hospital in case the expenses exceed Rs. 20.

10.

When the Medical Officer of the Board is called to attend at the residence of an employee for consultation/or treatment on account of his own illness and/or the illness on a member of his family, a visiting fee will be paid by the employee as follows:Fee for visit
Ist division 60% of the aggregate marks or more.
IInd division 45% of the aggregate marks or more but less than 60%.
IIIrd division below 45% of the aggregate marks;
Note. - The recovery of the visit fee from the Board's employees shall be effected monthwise through the Finance and Accounts Officer of the Board on receipt of intimation from the Medical Officer on the prescribed form duly signed by the employee for each visit and shall be credited to the Board's account.

11.

An account of visit fees will be maintained by the Medical Officer of the Board regularly date-wise on a prescribed register and furnished monthly to the Finance and Accounts Officer of the Board.

12.

Any case not coming within the purview of these regulations shall be decided in accordance with the Punjab Services (Medical Attendance) Rules, 1940 as amended from time to time.

13. Interpretation

- If any question arises as to the interpretation of any of the provisions of these regulations, the matter shall be referred to the Government who shall decide the same.