STATUTORY RULES.

1904. No. 54.

AMENDMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION No. 88.

Public Service Regulation No. 88 reads as follows :—

" 88. Leave granted to officers, who are members of the Defence Forces, for the purpose of carrying out duties imposed on them by Naval or Military Regulations, shall not, however, be deducted."

It is recommended that the above Regulation be repealed, and that a new Regulation, as shown hereunder, be substituted therefor :—

" 88. An officer who is absent from his duties, on days other than gazetted public holidays, for the purpose of attending camps and courses of naval and military instruction, and who is paid for such attendance by the Department of Defence, shall have the option of having the period he is so absent deducted from any leave of absence due to him (such as annual recreation leave, leave in lieu of gazetted holidays, &c.), or of having his salary stopped for that period."

" Temporary employes shall be treated in the same manner as permanent officers, as regards gazetted public holidays; on other occasions leave to be granted by the Department without pay."

By Authority : Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.

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