Coll 29/45(3) 'Conditions of service of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf (Policy and Superior staff)' [‎66v] (132/669)

the officer may proceed under medical advice on
health grounds or for the purposes of undergoing
treatment which is not available locally.
Comment.
The Secretary of State will require, before sanc
tioning the payment of the amount of fares under
the above paragraph, the production of a certificate
by a duly qualified medical practitioner that it is
necessary for the officer to proceed to the place
to which the journey is made on health grounds.
7.—(«} An officer who is making a journey in any
of the cases referred to in (£>) or (c) of paragraph 3
or in (a) or (c) of paragraph 4 above will be entitled
to receive the amount of the fares by the approved
route for members of his family, as defined in para
graph (b) below. In the cases referred to in (a) of
paragraph 3 and (6) of paragraph 4 he will only be
entitled to receive the amounts of the fares for any
members of his family if the Secretary of State in
any particular case so decides.
Comment.
Married officers in Grades 7 to 9, and un
married officers in Grades 4, 5, 6: 2;
Other officers: 1;
except that in the cases referred to in (a) of para
graph 4 (ordinary leave) the maximum number of
servants is—
Heads of Missions: 3;
Married officers in Grades 4 to 6 (other than
Heads of Missions): 2;
Other officers: 1.
Comment.
Comments (1) and (2) to paragraph 7 («) above
also apply to the case of servants.
(c) Where an officer serving abroad dies, leaving at
his post servants whom he had brought from the
United Kingdom or elsewhere to his post and for
whose return to their homes he had made himself
responsible, the amount of the fares for such ser
vants (within the limits of (b) above) for a journey
from his post to their homes will be paid on request
up to the amount of the fares to the United Kingdom.
( 1 ) Families will be expected to travel together.
Where the officer’s family do not travel with him
their expenses will not be paid unless the Secre
tary of State is satisfied that there was a good
reason for separate journeys.
(2) Travelling expenses will be allowed for an
officer's wife in cases under (a) of paragraph 3
only where the Secretary of State has .been satis
fied in advance that it was necessary or desirable
for her to accompany the officer.
(3) Where, for the reasons given in paragraphs
3 (d) and 4 (d), the officer is not entitled to receive
the amount of the fares for himself, he will not be
able to claim them for his family.
(b) The members of an officer’s family referred
to in (a) above are—
(i) his wife, or if he is unmarried or a widower
and is not living in an hotel, a sister or other
relative who lives with him and acts as his
hostess;
(ii) sons who at the time of the commencement
of the journey are under 16 years of age, or who,
though 16 years of age or o’ver, reside with and
are dependent on their father by reason of physical
or mental infirmity;
(iii) unmarried daughters residing with and de
pendent on their father;
(iv) sons up to the age of 18 years who are
resident at their father’s post abroad and are
receiving full-time education at that post
Comment.
Adopted or step-sons or daughters are included
in the above enumeration.
(c) The amount of the fares of the members of the
family of an officer serving abroad who dies, leaving
his family abroad, for a journey from the place
where they are to go, will be paid at the request of his
widow or other member of his family up to the
amount of the fares from the officer’s post to the
United Kingdom.
(rf) If a member of the family of an officer serving
abroad who is resident with the officer at his post
is seriously ill and is required to proceed elsewhere on
health grounds or for the purposes of treatment, the
Secretary of State may, at his discretion, allow pay
ment to the officer of the return fares of the sick
person and (where necessary) another person travel
ling with the smk person, from the officer’s post to
such place as the sick person may proceed on medical
advice.
Comment.
The comment to paragraph 6 above applies here.
An officer who is making a journey in any
^ the cases referred to in (ft) or \c) of paragraph 3
(«) or (c) of paragraph 4 above will be entitled
to receive the amount of the fares by the approved
oaragranh the Hmits s f> ec >^ d in
paragraph (b) below'). The Secretary of State may
in special circumstances authorise the payment of
the fares of a servant accompanying the officer in
the cases referred to in (b) of paragraph 4 (provided
no member of the family is also accompanying tS
officer) and (a) of paragraph 3 above. Y §
^ ?L The L maxirnuni number of servants in respect
of whorn the amounts of fares may be paid are
Heads of Missions: 5; ,
Head”^ <• 5 and 6 ( ° thCT th *"
cniiwuiiLo ui idles are
the previous paragraphs of this Regulation, these
fares wHl be (a) in the case of the officer or members
of his family, first-class fares, including sleeping
berths, for a land journey, (b) in the case of ser
vants, third-class fares in the United Kingdom and
second-class fares elsewhere. Where, however, the
servant is a nurse or governess travelling with the
officer s child or children of 10 years of age or under
a first-class fare will be paid. '(This does not apply
to a journey or part of a journey by land where
(a) there is only one such child, or (b) first-class
sleeping accommodation is obtainable on payment of
a supplement to a second-class fare, in which case this
supplement .will be payable.) First-class fares will
however, be payable in respect of servants in cases
where no second-class accommodation is available
or, in exceptional cases abroad, where the Secretary
o state is satisfied that second-class accommodation
is unsuitable for Europeans.
.. IO -—(«) In any case where the amount of fares
is payable under, the preceding paragraphs of this
regu ation, except in the case of journeys on ordinary
and sick leave, a subsistence allowance will be
granted to meet the expenses of food and sleeping
accommodation, where these are not included in the
tare. The subsistence allowance will be at the rate
in force at the time for the countries traversed by
■ the approved route or for journeys by sea.
(b) Full subsistence allowance will be payable in
respect of the officer himself, three-quarters of the
full allowance for hi s wdfe. one-half of the full allow
ance or every other member of his family above
the age of 12 months, and three-eighths of the full
allowance for servants, subject to the limitation as
of th“Re^laUo? Wn ,n para S ra P hs 7 (6) and 8 (6)
(c) Where some, but not all, of the items for
which subsistence allowance is granted are provided
under the fare, the subsistence allowance will be
proportionately reduced.
Comment.
(1) If an officer is allowed the expenses of a
sleeping berth on a long journey he will receive only
two-thirds of the subsistence allowance to meet the
cost of his food.
(2) Subsistence allowances are payable only in
Ca ^ eS n' V ^ ere „ fares are P a y abl e or if the expenses
which the allowance is designed to meet are not
covered by the payment of a fare. Consequently
they are payable, inter aha, in the cases in 7 (c)
or 8 (c), but not in cases under 3 (d) or 4 (d)
( 3 ) bee the comment to paragraph 2 above.
11. Necessary expenses (such as taxi fares fees for
registration of luggage, porterage, &c.) incidental to
the journey in respect of which the amount of the fare
is payable under the preceding paragraphs of this
application.^ ** ^
Comment.
cihi 1 > incide " ta l | expenses which are reason-
aranh ™ 1 be P a y able und er this para-
thaf h rh tHe ° ffiC u r Wl11 be squired to certify
incurred eXpenSeS whlch he claims were necessarily
commen^ 0m T?\ \° P^aph 2 above and
I ^ i nd to paragraph 7 above apply
to claims to these expenses. ^ y
12. Where an officer is proceeding to his post on
transfer or on first appointment abroad or having