Civil Service Personnel Rules Rule 254

254. (a) Injury means inflicting an injury on the service personnel by somebody in any of the following situations mentioned under:

• (i) infliction of injury by assaulting or resisting in order to be unable to perform the duty;
• (ii) infliction of injury because of anything done or attempted to be done by a service personnel in the discharge of duties;
• (iii) infliction of injury because of official position.

(b) Accident means getting injured of a service personnel because of any of the situations mentioned under other than those mentioned in sub-rule (a):

• (i) a sudden and unavoidable injury;
• (ii) an injury due to an act of devotion to and the discharge of duty in the cases which arise in emergency.

(c) Disease means any disease which is contracted by a service personnel as a result of an accident in the workplace or an adverse environmental condition.

(d) Special occupational hazard means the followings:

• (i) a hazard which may cause an injury due to sub-rule (a);
• (ii) a hazard which may cause an accidental injury while performing any particular duty which has the effect of increasing his liability to injury beyond the ordinary risk of the post he holds or as a consequence of performing such duty;
• (iii) a hazard which may cause a disease to a medical service personnel because of his duty either to treat a patient suffering from an infectious disease or septicaemia or other disease or to conduct a post-mortem examination.

(e) Occupational hazard means a hazard causing an injury or a disease while performing duty or as a consequence of performing such duty other than special occupational hazards. If the hazard, however, is ordinarily the common one anybody may experience and the unavoidable condition arising from the work nature or conditions relating to performing duties do not significantly increase the liability of that hazard, such hazard shall not be presumed as an occupational hazard.

(f) Date of injury means as follows:

• (i) in the case of accident or injury mentioned in sub-rule (a), the actual date on which the injury was suffered;
• (ii) in the case of disease, the date on which the medical board reports.

(g) The expression extraordinary pension includes permanent injury pension, temporary extraordinary pension and extraordinary family pension for the purpose contained in these rules.