Amendments and Additions to the Regulations made by the Public Service
Commissioner in respect of the Tourist and Health Resorts Department.

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 revoke the regulations (in regard to leave
of absence for the officers of the General Division of the Tourist and
Health Resorts Department) made under the said Act on the twenty-
sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the eighth day of March,
one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and doth hereby make
the regulations hereinafter set forth in lieu thereof.

Such regulations shall have effect on the date of publication
thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

1. THE Permanent Head, Tourist and Health Resorts Department,
   may grant leave of absence for recreation to officers of the General
   Division of the Department on the following scale :

(1.) To bath, pump, and boiler attendants, caretakers, guides,
laundresses, ticket-sellers, and masseurs—

(a.) When an officer has served less than ten years, not exceed-
ing twelve working-days in each year;

(b.) When an officer has served for ten years and upwards, not
exceeding eighteen working-days in each year:

Provided that head masseurs and masseuses employed for approxi-
mately not less than half time on “wet” massage duty may be
allowed six additional working-days leave in each year.

(2.) To matrons, nurses, probationer nurses, hostel-managers,
and housekeepers; not exceeding twenty-four working-days in each
year.

(3.) To poultrymen, carters, and rangers, not exceeding eighteen
working-days in each year.

2. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing regulation, officers
   who are generally required to be on duty on alternate Sundays (and
   who are not allowed a holiday in lieu of Sunday) may be granted
   six additional working-days leave of absence in each year, and officers
   who are generally required to be on duty every Sunday (and who
   are not allowed a weekly holiday in lieu of Sunday) may be granted
   not more than twelve additional working-days leave in each year,
   but no officer shall be entitled to receive more than twenty-four
   working-days leave in any year.

3. The granting of leave of absence pursuant to the foregoing
   regulations shall be subject to the express conditions—

(a.) That the behaviour of the officer has been in every respect
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.

4. All the days of absence in excess of the number of days allowed
   for sick-leave shall be deducted from the annual leave of absence
   granted for recreation, but in special cases the Commissioner may,
   on the recommendation of the Permanent Head, grant further leave.

SPECIAL HOLIDAYS.

5. (1.) Where possible officers shall receive, in addition to annual
   leave, the following holidays : New Year’s Day, Good Friday, and
   Christmas Day; and four other holidays as may be convenient to the
   Department.

(2.) Officers who cannot be granted such holidays may be granted
equivalent time, provided it is taken within four weeks of the holiday.

As witness my hand this 10th day of November, 1922.

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 Zea-
land, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, approves the foregoing regulations.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

Approved in Council this 17th day of November, 1922.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.