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1. The following rules concerning half-pay leave are additional to those set out in the Colonial Office Regulations and apply to all officers who have joined the service since the lst. of January, 1912, and to all other officers who may desire to come under them. They will apply to the case of any officer/on
who has
any occasion applied for and received any privilege under them.
shall be read 1. Colonial Office Regulation 84 is altered by the
through resident substitution of the words "four and a half years service"fee
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2. Colonial Office Regulation 87 is altered by the though substitution for the words "grant more than twelve months half-
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-pay leave" the words "grant more than nine months half-pay
the following words shall be substitutes for leave" and for the words "Leave will not be extended as e attor
the last sentence of that: Regulation.
of course nor unless public Convenience permite" of the words "Leave on half-pay will in no case be extended except on grounds of ill-health,/urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear sufficient to the Secretary of State. In exception- -al cases extension of leave on no pay may be granted."
3. At the request of any officer who may be eligiole for the grant of any period of half-pay leave under these Rules the Governor may commute the whole or any portion of such half-pay leave into one-half the period of full pay leave provided that the total period of such commuted and uncommuted leave shall not together with any period of vacation leave which may be granted at the same time exceed ten months.
4. An Officer acting for another officer during such other officer's commuted leave shall be entitled to receive salar
as if such other officer were on half-pay leave.