Military Pensions Act, 1976 (Act No. 84 of 1976)

13. Medical treatment of members

Purchase

(1)	If the Director-General, after consultation with a medical pensions officer, is of the opinion that it is necessary or desirable that a member—

(a)	undergo medical for his pensionable disability;

(b)	be admitted to a hospital or other institution in order to—

(i)	undergo a medical or psychological examination for the purpose of determining the degree of his pensionable ability for the purposes of this Act;

(ii)	under psychiatric or medical treatment for his pensionable disability;

(iii)

receive any training whereby he may possibly benefit, in the opinion of the Director-General,

the Director-General may—

(aa)	authorise that the member undergo at the expense of the State the medical treatment referred to in paragraph (a);

(bb)	direct that the member be examined as contemplated in paragraph (b)(i) and authorise that the member be admitted at the expense of the State to a hospital or other institution for the purposes of paragraph (b)(i), (ii) or (iii).

[Section 13(1) substituted by section 7(a) of Act No. 26 of 1977 (Notice No. 444, GG 5463, dated 23 March 1977)]

(2)	The cost of such admission or of any examination, treatment or training in terms of subsection (1) shall be defrayed from moneys appropriated by Parliament for the purpose.

(3)	If any member, after being directed thereto in terms of subsection (1)(b)(i), refuses to submit to an examination in terms of that subsection, the Director-General may direct that—

[Words preceding section 13(3)(a) substituted by section 7(b) of Act No. 26 of 1977 (Notice No. 444, GG 5463, dated 23 March 1977)]

(a)	if the application of the member concerned for a pension has not yet been finalised, the application be not finalised until such time as he submits to such examination; or

(b)	if the member is already in receipt of a pension, the pension or such part thereof as the Director-General may determined, be withheld until he submits to such examination.

(4)	For the purposes of this section "member" includes a volunteer as defined in section 1 of the War Pensions Act, 1967 (Act No. 82 of 1967).

[Section 13(4) inserted by section 7(c) of Act No. 26 of 1977 (Notice No. 444, GG 5463, dated 23 March 1977)]

[Section 13 substituted by section 18 of Act No. 96 of 1983 (Notice No. 1523, GG 8809, dated 13 July 1983)]