Payments from Fund

(1) No payment shall be made from the Prison Officers Reward Fund except upon the authority of the Superintendent (2) The Superintendent of Prisons may, in his discretion, sanction payments from the Prison Officers Reward Fund for any of the following purposes, (a) assistance to the wives or families of deceased officers of the prisons or to any officers discharged from the prisons as medically unfit for further service; (b) payments to officers of the prisons for meritorious acts or service in the execution of duty, if such payments are not met from Government Funds; (c) expenditure for the benefit and advancement of authorised recreation and sport organised by the officers of the prisons; 29 (d) any other purpose not specified in this section which the of considers to be for the general welfare of the (3) Payments from the Fund in any one year shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars without the prior approval of the Minister.