Amendment of Police Regulations (ACT)

Regulations under the Police Ordinance 1927-1934.

T T H O M A S C O R N E L I U S B R E N N A N , a Member of the Executive

JL, Council, acting for and on behalf of the Attorney-General, hereby

make the following Regulations under the Police Ordinance 1927-1934.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of May, 1936.

8 T H O S . C. B R E N N A N for Attorney-General.

A M E N D M E N T O F R E G U L A T I O N S M A D E U N D E R T H E

P O L I C E	O R D I N A N C E	1927-1930	M A D E	O N	1 0 T H M A R C H ,
1930,	A N D	P U B L I S H E D	I N	T H E	COMMONWEALTH
GAZETTE	O F	1 3 T H M A R C H ,	1930,	AS	S U B S E Q U E N T L Y
A M E N D E D .

After regulation 17 of the Police Regulations, the following regulations are inserted :—

" 1 8 . — (1.) "When a member of the Police Force has served in the Fmiough.

Force for at least twenty years, the Attorney-General may grant him leave of absence for a period not exceeding one month and one-half on full salary or three months on half salary, in respect of each completed five years of continuous service:

Provided that a member of the Force shall not be granted leave of
absence to exceed a continuous period of twelve months at any one time.

" (2 . ) When a member of the Police Force who has served in the Force for at least twenty years is retiring from the Force, the Attorney- General may authorize payment to him upon retirement of a sum equivalent to the salary for the period of leave not exceeding that which the member could have been granted under the last preceding sub- regulation.

" (3 . ) Upon the death of a member of the Force who, at the date of his death, was eligible under this regulation for the grant of leave of absence, the Attorney-General may authorize payment to the dependants of the member of a sum equivalent to the amount of salary which would, under this regulation, have been granted to the member had he retired immediately prior to the date of his death.

" (4 . ) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation-—

year of service; and

(a ) there shall not be granted under this regulation, in respect of the service of any member of the Force, leave of absence or pay on retirement or death exceeding in the whole twelve months on full salary or its equivalent;

(b) leave of absence for recreation shall not be granted in respect of the year in which leave of absence granted under this regulation commences and, if leave of absence for recreation has been so granted, i t shall be regarded as part of the period of leave of absence under this regulation:

Provided that the total period of leave of absence for recreation which may, under this paragraph, be withheld or regarded as par t of the period of leave of absence granted under this regulation, during any member's period of service, shall not exceed the period of leave of ahsence for recreation which may be granted in respect of one

(c) the official conduct record of a member of the Force shall be taken into consideration in determining whether the whole or any portion of the leave of absence or pay pro- vided in this regulation may be granted.

Extended leave " 1 9 . — (1.) The Attorney-Gieneral may grant to any member of members of" ° the Force, whose period of service is less than twenty years, who is entiuedto"0' n 0* eligible for extended leave of absence under the last preceding furlough. regulation, immediately prior to his retirement from the Force on, or

subsequent to, his attaining the age prescribed for his retirement under the Police Superannuation Ordinance 1928-1934, leave of absence on full salary for a period not exceeding that appropriate to his service as specified iu the following scale:—

Service. Leave.

16 years and less than 20 years . . 5 months

12 years and less than 16 years . .	. .	4 months
S years and less than 12 years • . .	. .	3 months
4 years and less than	8 years . .	2 monthf.

" (2 . ) In lieu of leave in accordance with the last preceding sub- regulation, the Attorney-General may authorize payment to a member of the Force, eligible for leave in pursuance of that sub-regulation, upon his retirement from the Force, of a sum equivalent to the salary for a

. period of leave not exceeding that which the member could have been granted under tha t sub-regulation.

"(3.) Where a member of the Force, who is less than the age prescribed under the Police Superannuation Ordinance 1928-1934 for his retirement, retires from the Force after less than twenty years' service and produces to the Attorney-General satisfactory evidence that his retirement is due to ill-health and that such ill-health is permanent and is not due to misconduct or to causes within his own. control, the Attorney-General may authorize payment to the member of a sum equivalent to the salary for a period of leave not exceeding that for which, had he attained the age for his retirement so prescribed, he would have been eligible under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.

"(4 . ) In the event of the death of a member of the Force before he has completed twenty years' service in the Force and either before or after he has attained the age prescribed for his retirement under the Police Superannuation Ordinance 1928-1934, the Attorney-General may authorize payment to the dependants of the member of a sum

would have received had he been eligible for, and granted, leave of equivalent to the salary for the period of leave which the member absence under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.

" (5 . ) The official record of a member of the Force shall be taken into consideration in determining whether the whole or any portion of the leave of absence or pay provided in this regulation may be granted.

Prior service	" 2 0 . For the purposes of regulations 18 and 19 of these Eegula- t i o n S i the service of a member of the Force includes his service (if any) as a Peace Officer or as a member of the Police Force of a State immediately preceding his service as a member of the Force.".
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