STATUTORY RULES.
1915. No. 131.
PROVISIONAL REGULATION THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1902-1913.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902-1913 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.
Dated this twenty-eighth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
ANDREW FISHER.
Regulation 88 is Repealed and the Following Inserted in its Stead.
Leave of absence for defence purposes.
88. (1) Leave of absence may be granted to officers who are members of the Defence Force—
(a) in cases where such absence is necessary to enable the member to fulfil the course of training prescribed in Part XII. of the Defence Act 1903-1915;
(b) who are called up for active service under the Defence Act 1903-1915; or
(c) to enable them to attend Schools of Naval or Military Instruction.
(2) Such leave may, at the option of the officer, be deducted from annual or accumulated leave, and in respect of the period so deducted shall be granted on full pay; otherwise it shall be granted without pay unless the daily pay of the officer, computed by dividing his annual salary by 313, exceeds his daily pay as a member of the Defence Force, when leave may be granted with pay at the rate of such excess.
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