Special disability leave for accidental injury.(IREC - 553)
(1) The provisions of rule 552 shall apply also to a railway servant, whether permanent or temporary, who is disabled by injury accident incurred in, or in consequence of due performance of his official duties or in consequence of his official position, or by illness incurred in the performance of any particular duty which has the effect of increasing his liability to illness or injury beyond the ordinary risk attaching to the post which he holds.
(2) The grant of special disability leave in such case shall be subject to the further conditions:--
(i) that the disability if due to disease must be certified by the Authorised Medical Attendant of the railway servant concerned to be directly due to the performance of the particular duty;
(ii) that if the Railway servant has contracted such disability during service otherwise than with a military force, it must be in the opinion of the authority competent to sanction leave, exceptional in character; and
(iii) that the period of absence recommended by the Authorised Medical Attendant may be covered in part by leave under this rule and part by any other kind of leave, and that the amount of special disability leave granted on average pay shall not exceed 120 days.
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