Sick-leave allowed, whether by the Permanent Head or by the Commissioner, under this regulation may be granted in one or more periods, but the aggregate amount of leave above stated is intended to cover a period of three years, dating from the first absence on sick-leave.

The second or any subsequent triennial period will commence on the date of the first absence on sick-leave following the date upon which the previous triennial period expired; and for the three years thus commencing the full amount of leave as herein provided according to length of service may again be allowed.

As witness my hand this 14th day of December, 1920.
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 20th day of December, 1920.
F. D. THOMSON, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amendments and Additions to the Regulations under the Public Service Act, 1912.

I N 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 regulations made under the said Act on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and the amendments thereof made from time to time under the provisions of the said Act, make the amendment shown in the Schedule hereto.
Such amendment shall have effect from and after publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.
REGULATION No. 111A is hereby revoked, and the following substituted therefor :-

111a. The following special travelling and other allowances shall be payable in the cases stated hereunder :-
To each suboverseer, foreman storeman, or head chainman on an engineering or a survey party, for each day occupied in travelling from his headquarters to his work and back to headquarters from his work, the sum of 10s.
To any other man whom it is necessary to employ in any centre and send to work in the country, the cost of transit to and back from his work ; and, in addition, for each day occupied in so travelling to and back from his work, the sum of 8s. 6d.; but no allowance shall be payable for the period during which he is employed on the work he is sent to perform unless under special circumstances approved by the Permanent Head.

In each case “day” shall mean a full period of twenty-four hours. For portions of a day the allowance shall be at the rate of 6d. per hour, but shall not in any case exceed the full day’s allowance specified above; but when a man is sent out from any centre and returns the same night the cost of transit only will be paid, unless he was unaware the previous night that he was to leave the next day, in which latter case actual and reasonable expenditure for meals will be refunded.

As witness my hand this 14th day of December, 1920.
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 amendment to the regulations.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
Approved in Council, this 20th day of December, 1920.
F. D. THOMSON, Clerk of the Executive Council