S.L. 111.2 Art. 6Certificates of incapacity, discharge from hospital, etc.

(1) An application for an award of an injury allowance in respect of an injury shall be made on the form and shall include a certificate which shall -

(a) where the claimant is receiving treatment for that injury as an in-patient in a hospital, be a certificate signed by a responsible officer of that hospital certifying that the claimant is receiving such treatment;

(b) in any other case, be a certificate signed by a government medical officer certifying that the claimant is incapable of work by reason of that injury.

(2) An application for an award of a pension or allowance in respect of an injury which is claimed to be causing a person serious and prolonged disablement shall be on the form and shall be accompanied by a certificate which shall -

(a) in a case where the disabled person has received treatment in a hospital for that injury, be a certificate by a medical officer of that hospital as to the nature and effects of that injury;

(b) in any other case be a certificate on the form by a government medical officer as to the nature and effects of that injury.

(3) An application for an award of a pension or an allowance in respect of an injury of which the death of a person is claimed to have been the direct result shall be on the form and shall be accompanied -

(a) where that person has died in these Islands, by a duly certified copy or extract under the hand of the Director of the Public Registry of the certificate of the death of that person or by a duly certified copy of the entry in the parish register of the death of that person or, if such certificates are not available and if the Committee so directs, such certificate or other evidence as the Committee may require for the purpose of satisfying themselves that that person has died;

(b) where that person has died elsewhere, by such certificate or other evidence as the Committee may require for the purpose of satisfying themselves that that person has died.