Punjab State Legislature Officers, Ministers and Members (Medical Facilities) Rules, 1966

Published vide Punjab Government Notification No. G.S.R. 17/P.A. 26/65/Section 2/66 dated the 4th February, 1966

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  1. (1) These rules may be called the Punjab State Legislature Officers, Ministers and Members (Medical Facilities) Rules, 1966.

(2) They shall come into force at once.

[2. Medical facilities admissible. - Every person holding, for the time being, any of the offices mentioned in sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Punjab State Legislature Officer, Ministers and Members (Medical Facilities) Act, 1965 shall be entitled, for himself, and for members of his family to the same medical facilities as are available to Class I Officers of the Punjab Government :]

Provided that in Chandigarh such person shall be entitled to reimbursement only:

Provided further that-

(a) every such person shall be exempt from the production of essentiality certificate by the authorised medical attendant in support of his claim for reimbursement, and

(b) the authority competent to order reimbursement shall ensure that the claim for reimbursement is justified, is in respect of reimbursable medicines only and is otherwise in order.

Explanation. - For the purpose of this rule the expression "members of his family" shall mean the husband or the wife, as the case may be, of such person who is residing with and wholly dependent on such person, his legitimate children, his step children, his legally adopted children, his parents and his widowed daughters residing with and wholly dependent on him.