Coll 30/198 ‘Persian Gulf Defence : - ABADAN.’ [‎16r] (31/229)

for th payii m of cpmpmrat iok •
^ j# wmrsat of war injuries sustaii?^) by ^jkrtair
» F ;H30Ha IN F’RSiA.
X# r ih«®a arrangements . appl y to Brit'Xsn subj'ect^i 8
protected persons in Persia who are enrolled or registered, whether
voluntarily or eoiv^uisorily, for the purpose of fij*ew8tahing or
other civil defence duties* j I q y ; o
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2. v here a person to whom these arrangements apply sustains a
war injury in the course of the performance of his civil deience
duties, compensation in respect of that injury may he awarded to
hik or, in the eveut of his death as a direct result of the injury, ^
to hie eligible dependants, in accordance with the following
piovisz of those arrangeriente*
3.U') Corpenoatlon under these arrangements shall take such form
and be at such rate or of such mmount os would, by virtue of the
provisions of the relevant scheme, have been appropriate in the
esse of the injured person or of the eligible dependants of the
deceased person if the injured or deceased person had been -
(a) where the relevant scheme is the United kingdom
Scheme, a civil defence volunteer who had sustained
a war service injtiry within the meaning of that
scheme; and
(b) where the relevant scheme is the Indian Bcheme, a
workman who had sustained an injury by accident arising
out of and in the course of his employment within the
meaning of that dcheiaa;
Provided that., if an injured person becomes, or an
eligible dependant of a deceased person is or becomes, resident
in any territory (other than Inuie) where a local ©cherae of
conpeneation for war Injuries is in operation, eo; pensation under
these arrangements may, if the Minister thinks fit, take such fom
and be at such rate o: of such amount as woul4* by virtue of the
provisions of that local scheme, have been approp: late in the case
of that injure.* person or of that dependant if that local scheiiie had
applied to the case*
(2) hhere a person in relation to v.hom the relevant scheme is
the Indian Schezsa was not, at the date of the injury, engaged in any
remunerative occupation, that person shall be ti*eate& for the
purposes of determining the compensation which my be swarded under
these arrangements as though he were receiving at that date such
rerauneration as the Minister considers appropriate in his case*
4* Save in o far as is otherwise expressly provided in these
arrangements, the terns and conditions applicable under the United
Kingdom Schem in the case of war service injury sustained in the
United Kingdom by a civil defence volunteer shall be applicable in
the case of a war Injury sustaine^by © person to wh om these
rr n, : ;e::;ent6 apply*
5* The Minister shall be the sole administrator end
interprater of these arrangements.
6* In these arrangements the following expressions have, unless
the context otherwise requires, the following meaning namely -
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"the relevant scheme* means ~
(a) in relation to a person who is a British subject.
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(b) in relation to a person //ho is a British .su
or British protected perso
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