2. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 28, and shall have effect as section 28A, of the Police Ordinance : -
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| | (1) The Minister may, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, make regulations providing for the establishment and operation of a scheme for the grant of compensation to any police officer who is permanently totally or partially disabled, or to the legal heir or heirs of any police officer who is dead, in any case where such disablement or death, as the case may be, is due to any injury-
| | | (a) received by such officer, without his own negligence, in the actual discharge of his duties and on account of circumstances specifically attributable to the nature of his duties, or |
| (b) received by such officer as a result of any act of reprisal occasioned by, or arising out of, any action taken by him in his capacity as such officer. |
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| | (2) No regulation made under the preceding provisions of this section shall have effect until it is approved by the Senate and the House of Representatives, and notification of such approval is published in the Gazette. | | |
| | (3) Any regulation made under the preceding provisions of this section may be given retrospective effect as from a date not earlier than the fourth day of February, 1948. | | |
| | (4) Any compensation granted in accordance with regulations made under the preceding provisions of this section shall be a charge on the Consolidated Fund of Ceylon. | | |
| | (5) Where in any case a dispute arises as to whether or not compensation is payable or as to the amount of compensation payable under any regulations made under the preceding provisions of this section, such dispute shall be referred to the Minister for decision by the Inspector-General of Police and the decision of the Minister, made with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, on such reference shall be final and conclusive and shall not be subject to question or review in a court of law. | | |
| | (6) Any compensation granted in accordance with regulations made under the preceding provisions of this section in respect of the disablement or death of a police officer shall be in addition to any pension, gratuity, compensation, allowance, or other benefit, granted in respect of such disablement or death under the Minutes on Pensions. | | |
| | (7) For the purposes of this section "police officer" shall include a police driver.'. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts