The Workmen's Compensation (Transfer of Money) Rules, 1935

Updated: Tuesday May 27, 2014/AthThulatha Rajab 28, 1435/Mangalavara Jyaistha 06, 1936, at 07:37:05 PM

The Workmen’s Compensation (Transfer of Money) Rules, 1935

[Published in the Gazette of India under Notification No L-3033, dated 13th March 1935, as subsequently amended from time to time]

[Rules framed by Central Government in exercise of the powers conferred by section 35 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 (VIII of 1923)]

PART I

General

1. These rules may be called the Workmen’s Compensation (Transfer of Money) Rules, 1935.

2. In these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,---

(a) “the Act” means the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923.

(b) authorised officer” means any officer, whom the Provincial Government may designate either generally or in respect of any area or class of cases, for the purpose of performing the functions assigned by these rules to be the authorised officer.

(c) “transferring authority” means any authority in any part of His Majesty’s Dominions or in any other country who transfer or causes to be transferred any lump sum awarded under the law relating to workmen’s compensation in such part or country and applicable for the benefit of any person residing or about to reside in the Provinces and the Capital of the Federation.

3. When any sum is transmitted by any authority in the Provinces and the Capital of the Federation to any other authority in accordance with these rules, the costs of such transmission may be deducted- from the sum so transmitted.

4. Money transmitted by any authority in the Provinces and the Capital of the Federation to any other authority in the Provinces and the Capital of the Federation in accordance with these rules, shall be transmitted by remittance transfer receipt or by money order.

Part II

Transfer of money paid to a Commissioner for the benefit of any person residing or about to reside in another country.

5. When the whole or any part of lump sum deposited with a Commissioner for payment as compensation under the Act is payable to any person or persons residing or about to reside in any other country, the Commissioner may order the transfer to that country of the sum so payable.

6. When the Commissioner has ordered the transfer of any sum under rule 5, he shall cause to be prepared and shall certify under his band a memorandum containing a brief statement of the facts of the case, of the orders passed upon it, and of the name and address of each person to whom payment is to be made.

7. If the Commissioner is not himself the authorised officer be shall forward the memorandum in duplicate to the authorised officer and may either remit the sum to be transferred to the authorised officer or retain it and dispose of it in accordance with the directions of the authorised officer. If the Commissioner is himself the authorised officer, he shall proceed as provided in rule 8.

8. The authorised officer, after satisfying himself that the memorandum is complete, shall forward it, and remit or cause to be remitted the sum to which it relates by such means of safe transmission as he may consider convenient to authority appointed in this behalf- for the country to which the sum is to be transferred, or if no such authority has been appointed, to such authority as the Provincial Government may by general or special order direct, and that shall at the same time request the authority addressed,---

(a) to arrange for payment to be made in accordance with the directions contained in the memorandum; and

(b) to furnish him with a report of the action taken upon the memorandum and return any sum the payment of which is for any reason impossible.

9. (1) The authorised officer shall. if tie is not the Commissioner with whom the matter originated, forward to such Commissioner a copy of any report received in response to a request made under rule 8.

(2) Any sum returned in accordance with rule 8 shall be disposed of in accordance with the Act.

PART III

Receipt and administration in the Provinces and tire Capital of the Federation of any money awarded under the lain relating to workmen’s compensation in another country.

10. (1) The authorised officer shall be the proper authority to receive moneys from transferring authorities.

(2) If any Commissioner or other Government servant, not being the authorised officer, receives any sum from a transferring authority he shall either forward such sum, together with any papers relating thereto, to the authorised officer for disposal or obtain the instructions of the authorised officer as to the disposal of the sum and papers and acting accordance with his instructions.

11. The authorised officer may himself dispose of any sum or part of any sum which he receives or of which he assumes control under rule 10 or may send it or any part of it for disposal to such Commissioner or Commissioners as he considers proper.

12. All sums received from a transferring authority shall be disposed of as far as possible in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the Workmen’s Compensation Rules, 1924,---

Provided that the directions, if any, received from the transferring authority as to the manner in which the sum should be administered shall be complied with.

13. (1) The authorised officer shall forward to the transferring authority a report showing how the sum received from him has been disposed of.

(2) Any Commissioner, not being the authorised officer, who has disposed of any part off the sum, shall make a report in duplicate as to the disposal of that part to the authorised officer, and, if the sum was received by him from another such Commissioner acting in accordance with section 21 of the Act, shall forward his report through that Commissioner.

14. Any part of the sum received from the transferring authority which shall have remained undisburded after the completion of the proceedings shall be returned to the transferring authority by, or under the direction of, the authorised officer.

West Pakistan Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923

West Pakistan Workmen’s Compensation Rules, 1961