Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934

Medical referees.

10.—(1) The Minister may from time to time appoint such and so many medical referees (in this Act referred to as medical referees) for the purposes of this Act as he may think necessary and the Minister for Finance shall sanction.

(2) Every medical referee shall be a duly qualified medical practitioner.

(3) Every medical referee shall hold office on such terms and on such conditions and shall receive such remuneration and allowances as the Minister, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, shall appoint.

(4) Where a medical referee has been employed as a medical practitioner in connection with any case under this Act by or on behalf of an employer or workman or by any insurers interested, he shall not act as medical referee in that case.