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Gratuity or allowance in case of injury.
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52.—(1) Where an officer or servant of a local authority is injured—
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(a) in the actual discharge of his duty, and
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(b) without his own default, and
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(c) by some injury attributable solely to the nature of his duty,
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the local authority may grant to him, and, if within seven years after the date of the injury, he dies as a direct result thereof, to his widow (or, in the case of a female officer or servant, her widowed husband), his father or mother, if wholly dependent on him at the time of his death, and to or in respect of his children, or any of them, such gratuity or allowance in money for life or for a limited period as the local authority may consider reasonable and as may be sanctioned by the Minister either generally or in any particular case.
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(2) Where an allowance is granted under this section to an injured person and there is also payable to him all or any of the following:
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(a) any other allowance payable by the local authority,
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(b) any lump sum so payable, and
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(c) any amount so payable by way of compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1934 to 1955,
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the allowance under this section together with so much as may be equivalent to whatever is also payable as aforesaid shall not exceed five-sixths of the remuneration (inclusive of the money value of emoluments (being any apartments, rations or other perquisites in kind), if any) of the position in which he received the injury.
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