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

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Courts of Marine Enquiry Regulations, 1961

Annexes

Annex A : Allowances towards subsistence and transport payable to members of Courts of Marine Enquiry

 

ANNEX A

(Regulation 6)

 

ALLOWANCES TOWARDS SUBSISTENCE AND TRANSPORT PAYABLE TO MEMBERS OF COURTS OF MARINE ENQUIRY

 

1. A member shall receive an allowance for every day on which he attends an investigation in respect of expenditure necessarily and actually incurred in respect of meals, liquid refreshments, accommodation, bedding and laundry and ironing but excluding alcoholic beverages and dry-cleaning—
(i) when he is not absent from his usual place of residence or employment overnight: R80 per day or part of a day calculated from midnight to midnight; and
(ii) when he is absent from his usual place of residence or employment overnight: R550 per day or part of a day calculated from midnight to midnight: Provided that if this allowance is insufficient the actual expenditure may be refunded to the member plus an amount of R50 per day to cover additional expenditure.

 

2. In addition to the allowance payable under paragraph 1 a member shall receive a special allowance for every day on which he attends an investigation and on which the case is wholly or partly heard of R750 per day or part of a day calculated from midnight to midnight.

 

3. For journeys undertaken by a member from his usual place of residence or employment to the place where the investigation is held, he may make use of public transport or his own motor vehicle or a hired motor vehicle.

 

4. A member is entitled to travel first class by train and in the economic class by air.

 

5. The actual cost will be refunded to a member in the case of public transport and, if the Director-General considers it reasonable, in the case of hired transport.

 

6. For the use of his own motor vehicle a member shall be reimbursed at the rate of R1,80 per kilometre for the distance travelled to and from the place of the investigation or the place from where the journey was continued by public transport.

 

[Annex A substituted by regulation 18 of Notice No. R. 777 dated 5 August 2005]