S.I. No. 187/1934 - Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 (Employer's Medical Practitioner) Regulations, 1934.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1934. No. 187.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1934 (EMPLOYER'S MEDICAL PRACTITIONER) REGULATIONS, 1934.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1934 (EMPLOYER'S MEDICAL PRACTITIONER) REGULATIONS, 1934. MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 28TH DAY OF JULY, 1934, PURSUANT TO SECTION 33 of THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1934 (No. 9 of 1934).

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (3) of Section 33 of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 , that a workman shall not be required to submit himself for examination by a medical practitioner provided and paid by his employer under Section 33 of the Act otherwise than in accordance with regulations made by the Minister for Industry and Commerce under the said section or at more frequent intervals than may be prescribed by those regulations:

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section II of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 , and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, makes the following regulations under Section 33 of the Act, that is to say:—

1. These regulations may be cited for all purposes as the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 (Employer's Medical Practitioner) Regulations, 1934.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923) applies to the interpretation of these regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. In these regulations—

The expression "the Act" means the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 (No. 9 of 1934).

4. Where a workman has given notice of an accident or is in receipt of weekly payments under the Act, he shall not be required to submit himself, against his will, for examination by a medical practitioner provided by the employer except at reasonable hours.

5. A workman in receipt of weekly payments shall not be required after a period of one month has elapsed from the date on which the first payment of compensation was made, or if the first payment is made in obedience to the award of the Court, from the date of the award, to submit himself, against his will, for examination by a medical practitioner provided by the employer except at the following intervals:—

Once a week during the second, and once a month during the third, fourth, fifth and sixth months, after the date of the first payment or award, as the case may be, and thereafter once in every two months.

Provided that where, after the second month, an application has been made to the Court for a review of the weekly payment, the workman may be required, pending and for the purposes of the settlement of the application, to submit himself to one additional examination.

6. These regulations shall come into operation on the first day of August, 1934.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 28th day of July in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four.

(Signed) JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.