OF A MEDICAL OFFICER WHO IS ALSO APPROVED BY THE INSURANCE COMPANY , WHILST BEING IN THE INTERESTS OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE INSURANCE COMPANY AND THE COMMISSION , CAN IN NO WAY ADVERSELY AFFECT THE INTERESTS OF THE OFFICIAL .
12 IT FOLLOWS FROM ALL THOSE CONSIDERATIONS THAT THE APPLICANT ' S CLAIM IN RESPECT OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE MEDICAL COMMITTEE MUST BE REJECTED .
THE CLAIM FOR DEFAULT INTEREST
13 THE APPLICANT CLAIMS THAT INTEREST CALCULATED AS FROM THE CONSOLIDATION OF EACH OF THE INJURIES SHOULD BE PAID ON THE ALLOWANCE . IN THAT RESPECT HE ALLEGES THAT THE COURSE OF THE PROCEDURE DETERMINING THE RATE OF PERMANENT PARTIAL INVALIDITY HAS BEEN UNDULY LONG AND THAT THE COMMISSION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS STATE OF AFFAIRS BECAUSE OF THE CONDUCT OF THE DOCTOR WHOM IT APPOINTED . HE OUGHT TO HAVE PURSUED THE CASE SO AS TO BE ABLE TO DETERMINE THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE VARIOUS INJURIES AS AND WHEN IT OCCURRED . ON THE CONTRARY THE DOCTOR DECIDED TO POSTPONE HIS FINAL EXAMINATION TO THE FOLLOWING YEAR AND DELEGATED SPECIALIST EXAMINATIONS TO ANOTHER DOCTOR WHO , IT IS ALLEGED , MADE HIS REPORT AFTER CONSIDERABLE DELAY . IT IS ALSO CLAIMED THAT THE WAY IN WHICH THE CASE WAS PURSUED WAS ALSO OPEN TO CRITICISM INASMUCH AS THE APPLICANT HAD TO GO TO DOCTORS NOMINATED BY THE DOCTOR APPOINTED BY THE COMMISSION AND THOSE EXAMINATIONS WERE INCOMPLETE , THUS FORCING THE APPLICANT TO ARRANGE AT A LATER DATE FOR FURTHER EXAMINATIONS ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT .
14 IT SHOULD BE STRESSED FIRST OF ALL THAT ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 20 OF THE RULES IN QUESTION ' ' THE DECISION DEFINING THE DEGREE OF INVALIDITY SHALL BE TAKEN AFTER THE OFFICIAL ' S INJURIES HAVE CONSOLIDATED ' ' , AND THE SECOND PARAGRAPH THEREOF PROVIDES THAT ' ' WHERE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFINE THE DEGREE OF INVALIDITY AFTER MEDICAL TREATMENT IS TERMINATED , THE FINDINGS OF THE DOCTOR(S ) REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 19 OR , WHERE APPROPRIATE , THE REPORT OF THE MEDICAL COMMITTEE REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 23 MUST SPECIFY A DEADLINE FOR REVIEWING THE OFFICIAL ' S CASE . ' '
15 IT FOLLOWS FROM THOSE PROVISIONS THAT ENTITLEMENT TO PAYMENT OF THE INVALIDITY ALLOWANCE DOES NOT ARISE AS AND WHEN EACH OF THE INJURIES HAS CONSOLIDATED BUT ONLY WHEN ALL THE INJURIES HAVE CONSOLIDATED . IT IS FOR THAT VERY REASON THAT THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF THE AFORESAID ARTICLE GIVES A RIGHT TO A PROVISIONAL ALLOWANCE .
16 IT IS FURTHER APPROPRIATE TO RECALL THAT UNDER THE INSURANCE PROVIDED FOR BY THE STAFF REGULATIONS THE COMPENSATION PAYABLE IN THE EVENT OF INVALIDITY IS IN THE NATURE OF A FLAT-RATE AWARD ASSESSED ON THE BASIS OF THE LASTING EFFECTS OF AN ACCIDENT . INTEREST MAY THUS BE CLAIMED ONLY WHERE THE PERSON ENTITLED TO THAT AWARD IS ABLE TO ESTABLISH THAT PAYMENT THEREOF WAS IMPROPERLY DELAYED BY THE ADMINISTRATION .
17 THAT IS NOT SO IN