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Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

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Courts of Survey Regulations, 1961

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Annex B : Allowances towards subsistence and transport payable to members of Courts of Survey (Regulation 7)

 

ANNEX B.

 

ALLOWANCES TOWARDS SUBSISTENCE AND TRANSPORT  PAYABLE TO MEMBERS OF COURTS OF SURVEY.

 

(REGULATION 7.)

 

1. A member shall be paid an allowance towards subsistence at the rate of R2.10 for every hour or part of an hour of any day on which be attends the investigation and on which the case is wholly or partly heard: Provided that he shall not be paid less than R6.30 or more than R10.50 for any such day.

 

2. The period for which payment shall be made in terms of paragraph I shall be reckoned from the time when the member attends to the time when he is released by the presiding officer from further attendance.

 

3. The member shall be paid an allowance towards subsistence of R2.10 for any day on which he attends the investigation but on which the case is not heard.

 

4. A member shall also be paid at the rate of one twenty-fourth of R10.50 for every completed hour (one twenty-fourth) of the time necessarily spent in travelling to and from the place at which the investigation is held.

 

5. In no case shall a member be paid under the foregoing paragraphs more than R10.50 for any period from midnight to midnight.

 

6. Where the railway or a railway bus serves, there shall be issued to the member a warrant entitling him to the issue of a first-class return ticket. If any other form of public transport is necessarily used, the fare disbursed by the member shall be refunded to him. For any part of the journey to and from the place at which the investigation is held which is not served by the railway or a railway bus or other form of public transport the member shall be paid a travelling allowance at the rate of ten cents a mile.