✨ Post Office Regulations
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leave must be reported as absent without leave, and he will be liable to suspension with forfeiture of pay, or to dismissal, or to be otherwise dealt with, as the circumstances of the case may warrant. Advice of leave-movements must not be made by telegram, unless the officer departing for or returning from leave is a Postmaster.
161. Form P.O. 65 (List of Absentees) provides that a weekly statement of absentees shall be sent to the General Post Office by Chief Postmasters, Inspectors of Telegraphs, and Officers in Charge. There is no necessity for sending separate advices on Form P.O. 146 to the General Post Office; but the form may be used between sub-offices and chief post-offices.
162. Chief Postmasters must, by means of the necessary codes given in Rule T. 2, telegraph the dates when a Postmaster, or an officer performing duties for another Department, commences leave and returns to duty, at the same time giving the name of the relieving officer, and also stating whether there is a bank deposit account at the place or not.
163. In cases of absence from sickness for any period extending over two days, a medical certificate on form P.O. 267 is necessary, but Postmasters may require that a certificate be supplied forthwith. The certificate should state the nature of the illness or accident. When being forwarded to the Secretary the certificate must be covered by form P.O. 106, and the form headed with the name of the officer absent, his official designation, and where stationed. The date of commencement of the sick-leave to be stated, and also, where practicable, the date when the leave ended.
164. Officers unable to resume duty on account of sickness must report the state of their health every Saturday morning, and they must not absent themselves from duty for a day longer than is absolutely necessary. The utmost vigilance should be exercised to prevent or detect absence on a false or insufficient plea of illness. Malingering, if absolutely proved, will be followed by dismissal.
165. Cases of accident while on duty should be reported specially, and the certificate of a medical practitioner accompany the report.
166. When a Chief Postmaster requires leave for more than one day he must make application to the Secretary, stating how he means to provide for his duty.
167. Applications for extension of leave of absence will not be entertained, unless it is clearly shown that the circum-
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