reasonable medical examination or treatment as the Commissioner considers
necessary or desirable in the circumstances.
(2) If a disabled person fails or refuses to undergo any medical examination or
treatment required in terms of subsection (1) and does not, within a period of six
weeks from the date upon which he was required to undergo that examination or
treatment, furnish to the Commissioner a satisfactory explanation for his failure or
refusal to do so, his right to his disablement pension shall be suspended with effect
from the expiration of such period or such later date as the Commissioner may
determine.
(3) If a disabled person whose disablement pension is suspended in terms of
subsection (2) subsequently undergoes the medical examination or treatment, as the
case may be—
(a)
within a period of six months from the date on which his disablement
pension was suspended, and the medical examination reveals or the treatment
produces, as the case may be—
(i)
no change in the degree of disablement, his disablement pension shall
be restored with effect from the date on which it was suspended;
(ii)
a reduction in the degree of disablement, his disablement pension
shall be restored with effect from the date upon which it was suspended at the rate
appropriate to such reduced degree of disablement;
(iii)
an increase in the degree of disablement, his disablement pension
shall be restored with effect from the date upon which it was suspended at the rate at
which it was payable immediately before it was so suspended and shall be adjusted
with effect from the first day of the month following that in which the disabled person
undergoes the medical examination or treatment to the rate appropriate to the degree
of disablement as so increased;
(b)
after a period of six months from the date upon which the disablement
pension was suspended, the disablement pension shall be restored with effect from
the first day of the month following that in which the disabled person undergoes the
medical examination or treatment at the rate appropriate to the degree of disablement
determined as a result of such medical examination or treatment.
(4) If a disabled person is aggrieved at being required by the Commissioner to
undergo a medical examination or treatment in terms of subsection (1), he may apply
to the Commissioner in writing to refer to a medical board the question of whether or
not the medical examination or treatment he is required to undergo is reasonable in
the circumstances, and the Commissioner shall refer the matter to a medical board.
(5) The opinion of a medical board as to whether or not any medical examination or
treatment which a disabled person is required to undergo in terms of subsection (1) is
reasonable shall be final, and if such board is of the opinion that—
(a)
the examination or treatment is not reasonable; or
(b)
the treatment will not have the effect of reducing the degree of
disablement of the disabled person;
the disablement pension of the disabled person shall not be suspended by virtue of his
refusal to undergo the medical examination or treatment and, if it has already been
suspended, it shall be restored with effect from the date on which it was suspended.
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Refund of medical expenses
(1) Subject to this section, a disabled person shall be entitled to be paid a refund of
any expenses reasonably and necessarily incurred by him as a result of his injury in
respect of—
(a)
dental, medical, surgical or hospital treatment; or
(b)
skilled nursing services; or
(c)
the supply of medicines or surgical dressings; or
(d)
the supply, maintenance, repair or renewal of artificial limbs or
apparatus.
(2) The question whether or not any expenses referred to in subsection (1) have been