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320 THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE LEGAL SUPPLEMENT - B 8TH AuG., 1981 GUYANA No.

20 of 1981 REGULATIONS Made Under THE NATIONAL INSURANCE AND SOCIAL SECURITY ACT (Cap.

36:01) IN EXERCISE OF THE POWERS CONFERRED UPON ME BY SECTIONS 19, 20, 21, 24 AND 51 OF THE NATIONAL INSURANCE AND SO­ CIAL SECURITY ACT, LATIONS:- I HEREBY MAKE THE FOLLOWING REGU­ CJJll3.t1on 1.
These Re�ations ance and Social lations the date of ment) Act 1981. publication Insur- may be cited as the National Security (SiOk:n.ess Benefit Medical Care) Regu­ 1981 and shall be deemed to have come into operation of the Miscellaneous on Enactments (Amend­ :,lllt:= 2.

(1) Where an insured person who is rendered.


temporarily : :n01111 incapable of work otherwise than as a result of employment J injury (su,ch person hereafter ref erred to as a "sick person") medical care for any condition incapable requires porarily from the date on which he is so rendered incapable as long as the need for such care continues or recurs.
that renders him tem­ to medical care of work for of work, he shall be entitled (2)The qualifying conditions with this regulation of medical shall be the same as those for the provision care in accordance set out in regulation and Social Security 23(a),(b) and (c) of the National Insurance (Benefit) Regulations�'.

(3)Medical care shall be provided or improving the health, with a view to maintaining., to work, of the and ability restoring sick person.
(4)Medical care shall be given in such a manner as to secure within the scope of the benefit at the mini­ maximum efficiency mum reasonable cost. "'

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36:01.

8TH Aue., 1981 THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE LEGAL SuPPLEMEN'I' - B 311 fit (5)The Board may make such arrangements practitioners for general as it thinks medical practi­ with registered tioner care.

medical 3.
medical 3.

The National Insurance and Social Benefit Medical and 12 thereof, a sick person as they apply in relation mediC'al care to an injured Care) Regulations shall apply to the provisions person and for that purpose - (Industrial �P=:�, Security other than regulations care to tfU::.

of medical of ;ndl s:ia1 to the provisions 3, 9 ot CM (II::�an Benefit Medlca\ care> IR.eigiu!a.tio.n11.
(a)regulation 2 shall have effect as if - (i)the definition of "employment injury" were deleted therefrom; (ii)for the words "employment injury" .

(iv) and (v) in the definition graphs care", there were substituted dition incapabl e of work"; and the words "con­ him temporarily in para­ of "medical that rendered (b)every reference to an "injured construed as a reference person" to a sick person.

shall be Made this 4th day of \ugust, 1981.

H.D.

Hoyte, Vice-President.

Eeonomic Planning and Finance.