Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM ACT 1984 No. 63, 1984 - SECT 80

80. (1) Section 68 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from
paragraph (12) (a) ''employed under this Act in a temporary capacity'' and
substituting ''an employee''.

(2) Section 68 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by inserting after sub-section (4) the following sub-section:

''(4A) Where the ordinary hours of duty of an officer during 2 or more periods
in the year last preceding 1 January in a particular year have been different,
the recreation leave credit, or the addition to the recreation leave credit,
that accrues to the officer on that date shall not be ascertained in
accordance with sub-section (4) but there accrues to the officer in respect of
each of those periods a recreation leave credit, or an addition to his
recreation leave credit, of a number of hours ascertained in accordance with
the following formula:

A x B x 4
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365

where-

A is the number of days in the period; and

B is the number of ordinary hours of duty per week that were applicable to the
officer during the period.'';

   (b)  by inserting after sub-section (8) the following sub-sections:

''(8A) Where-

   (a)  an officer is, for a particular period (in this sub-section referred
        to as the 'actual period of absence'), absent from the Service on
        leave of absence for recreation granted, or deemed to have been
        granted, to him in accordance with this section or the regulations;

   (b)  the absence is attributable to a leave credit that accrued to the
        officer in respect of a particular period (in this sub-section
        referred to as the 'accrual period'); and

   (c)  the number of ordinary hours of duty per week (in this sub-section
        referred to as the 'current hours of duty') that are applicable to the
        officer immediately before the absence is different from the number of
        ordinary hours of duty per week (in this sub-section referred to as
        the 'former hours of duty') that were applicable to the officer during
        the accrual period,

the following provisions have effect:

   (b)  the officer shall be deemed, for the purposes of sub-section (8) not
        to have been absent from the Service for the actual period of absence
        but for a number of hours (in this sub-section referred to as the
        'adjusted number of hours') calculated in accordance with the
        following formula:

C x D
----------------
E

where-

C is the number of hours in the actual period of absence;

D is the number of former hours of duty;

E is the number of current hours of duty;

   (e)  the officer shall be entitled to be paid in respect of the actual
        period of absence, in lieu of the amount that would otherwise be
        payable to him, an amount equal to the amount that would be payable to
        him if he were absent from the Service, on leave of absence for
        recreation granted to him in accordance with this section, for the
        adjusted number of hours.

''(8B) For the purposes of sub-section (8A), absences from the Service shall
be taken to be attributable to leave credits that accrue in respect of
particular periods in the same order as the order of occurrence of the periods
in respect of which the leave credits accrue.''; and

   (c)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

''(13) The regulations may provide that where the ordinary hours of duty of
an officer during 2 or more periods in the year last preceding 1 January in a
particular year have been different, the ordinary hours of duty of the officer
shall, in the circumstances prescribed in the regulations, be deemed for the
purposes of sub-sections (4), (4A) and (8A), to have been, during the whole of
the year last preceding that date, the ordinary hours of duty that were
applicable to the officer during such one of those periods is as prescribed by
or ascertained in accordance with the regulations.''.