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II. Casual Leave
(i)
Casual leave may be granted (subject to the exigencies of the service) at the rate of 12 days for each completed 12 months of resident service. The maximum amount which may be accumulated or taken at any one time is 30 days. Not more than 12 days casual leave may be taken within the last six months of a tour. Any casual leave which remains untaken at the end of a tour lapses, except that officers may carry forward two days casual leave from their previous tour to be taken immediately on return from leave.
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(ii) An advance of two days casual leave is made immediately
on arrival by air on first appointment.
(Note: Teaching staff, heads of schools, and any others
who enjoy school holidays are not eligible for Casual leave.)
III: Sick Leave
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An officer with less than four years service is eligible for: the grant of sick leave up to a total of 3 months on full pay and 3 months on half pay only. Sick leave up to a total of 6 months on full pay and 6 months on half pay in any period of 4 years may be granted to an officer who has completed 4 years service.
11. PASSAGES
(i) In this Memorandum. -
(a) "passage", means a standard direct economy class air passage, normally by British Overseas Airways Corporation (1st Class, if on a salary of $14,000 p.m. and above);
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(b) subject to (c) below, "family" when used in relation to
passages means the officer's wife, sons under the age of 19 years (21 years in the case of Section 11 (v)) and unmarried daughters under the age of 21 years. If in the course of an officer's tour a son attains the age of 19 or an unmarried daughter the age of 21, Government will pay only that proportion of his or her passage allowance which had been accumulated up to and including the day preceding the nineteenth or twenty-first birthday respectively, notwithstanding that the son or daughter may have left, Hong Kong before reaching the age of 19 or 21;
(c) wherever the person engaged is granted passages for himself and
his family such passages are limited to not more than six fullfare passages.
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