Internal Security (Civilian Injuries Compensation) Regulations

These Regulations may be cited as the Internal Security (Civilian Injuries Compensation) Regulations.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —“Board” means the Compensation Board appointed by the Minister for Finance under regulation 3;“compensation authority” means the Compensation Officer or the Board, as the case may require;“gainfully occupied adult” means a person not below the age of 12 years who is engaged on the date of receiving any injury in any trade, profession, office, employment or vocation and wholly or substantially dependent thereon for a livelihood or, who, though temporarily unemployed on the date of receiving any injury, is normally so engaged or dependent;“injury” means any injury, fatal or otherwise, sustained by any person within Singapore by any means whatsoever which, in the opinion of the compensation authority, was caused in a security area, as a direct result of and was attributable to the declaration of such an area as a security area by proclamation under section 48 of the Act;“wages” includes any privilege or benefit which is capable of being estimated in money but does not include —

For the purposes of these Regulations the Minister for Finance shall appoint —

Every person making a claim under these Regulations in respect of an injury shall be examined by a medical officer appointed by the Compensation Officer for that purpose. The report of the medical officer on the injury and the degree of disablement resulting therefrom shall be final.

The compensation authority in assessing and awarding any compensation under these Regulations shall take into account —

No award of compensation shall be made in respect of any injury unless the incapacity caused by such injury lasts for not less than 7 consecutive days.

In addition to awarding payment to any injured person of an ex gratia payment of compensation, the compensation authority may make an additional payment to any injured person to enable that person to obtain treatment for his injury whether the treatment shall be obtained within or outside Singapore.

Any injured person who is awarded an ex gratia payment of compensation under these Regulations may be required to undergo treatment, which shall be free, at a Government hospital, if, in the opinion of the compensation authority, his condition so permits and if accommodation at that hospital is available.

Any amount of compensation awarded to the representative or dependants of any deceased person or to any injured person may be paid in a lump sum or by instalments and may be paid under such terms and conditions as the compensation authority may impose.

No award made by the compensation authority shall vest any right in any person to sue for, or claim by any other means all or any part of such award, and an award by the compensation authority may be varied by the Minister for Finance after reference to the Board at any time, but not retrospectively so as to enable any compensation already paid to any person to be recovered, unless the payment was made as a result of fraud or mistake induced by the person receiving the compensation or any other person on his behalf.

Except in so far as the Minister for Finance may otherwise direct with respect to any particular case or class of cases, no claim shall be considered by the compensation authority, unless it shall have been made within 3 months of the date of the occurrence of the injury, whether the injury did or did not result in death, whichever is the later.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any written law to the contrary, the compensation authority may call upon any person to give evidence or to produce any documents as the compensation authority may require.

Any person who refuses or delays to give evidence or to produce any documents before the compensation authority shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to a fine not exceeding $2,000.