2898
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 102

applicant shall be subjected to an examination by a medical practitioner approved by the Commissioner.

Pay during sick-leave shall be in accordance with the following schedule :—

Length of Service.

Under three months
Over three months and under six months..
Over six months and under nine months
Over nine months and under five years
Over five years and under ten years
Over ten years

Period for which Leave may be granted :
On Full Pay. On Half Pay.
1 week
2 weeks
1 month
1 month 1 month.
2 months 1 month.
3 months

Sick-leave allowed, whether by the Permanent Head or by the Commissioner, under these regulations may be granted in one or more periods, but the aggregate amount of leave above stated is intended to cover the whole of the period of a workman’s service.

Regulation 32 is hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu thereof :—

32. No exception will be made in the foregoing schedule, except in the case of illness resulting from causes that can be directly traced to the conditions under which a workman is working, or where a workman in the discharge of his duties and through no fault of his own sustains injuries of such a nature as to incapacitate him from duty.

As witness my hand this 25th day of November, 1921.

W. R. MORRIS, Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, approves the foregoing regulations.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

Approved in Council this 5th day of December, 1921.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amendments and Additions to the Special Regulations affecting H.M. Prisons and the Officers employed therein, together with Exemptions from the Regulations made by the Public Service Commissioner.

IN pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred on him by the Public Service Act, 1912 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor-General in Council, doth hereby, in respect of the special regulations affecting H.M. prisons and the officers employed therein, together with exemptions from the regulations made by the Public Service Commissioner on the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and the amendments made from time to time under the provisions of the said Act, make the amendments shown in the Schedule hereto.

Such amendments shall have effect from and after the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATION 3 is hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu thereof :—

3. All prison officers of more than two years’ service in either a permanent or temporary capacity, other than probationary officers, may be granted leave of absence not exceeding twenty-four working-days in each year.

Probationary officers, after twelve months’ service, may be granted eighteen working-days’ leave of absence.

The granting of any such leave of absence shall be subject to the express conditions—

(a.) That the behaviour of the officer has been in every way satisfactory ;

(b.) That the total sick-leave during the previous twelve months has not exceeded twelve working-days ; and

(c.) That his official duties have been satisfactorily performed.