Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3471
for a continuous period of over forty-eight hours a medical certificate
setting forth the nature and probable duration of such illness must
be furnished : Provided, however, that any controlling officer may
require a medical certificate to be supplied forthwith.
72. For the period of an officer's absence from duty through
sickness, accident, or other pressing necessity the Permanent Head
may grant such extended leave of absence and on such terms as he
thinks fit : Provided that payment of salary shall not be made to
any officer who without the permission of his district controlling officer
leaves his headquarters.
73. An employee shall immediately report to his controlling officer
any case coming to his knowledge where any employee obtains sick-
leave without justifiable cause, or remains off duty on sick-leave after
he is fit to resume duty. Any employee who so obtains sick-leave,
absents himself from duty on the plea of sickness without justifiable
cause, or, being off duty on sick-leave, fails to return to duty as soon
as he is fit so to do, shall be liable to dismissal.
74. In no case shall sick-leave on pay be granted to any employee
if in the opinion of the Permanent Head the illness in respect of which
such sick-leave is required has been caused by or has arisen from or
out of the misconduct of such employee.
75. Officers injured while in the performance of their duty may,
on the special authority of the Permanent Head, be paid salary for the
period of their incapacity.
This regulation applies equally to members of the permanent and
temporary staffs, with the exception of temporary workmen. Apart
from the annual leave and holidays provided for in Regulation 70
hereof, temporary workmen shall be paid only for the actual time
worked.
76. (1.) The Permanent Head may allow officers special leave to
enable them to attend University lectures where the circumstances
appear to him to warrant it. In every case where leave is granted
for the above purpose the Permanent Head shall satisfy himself that
the officer duly attends the said lectures, and may in any case direct
that the time be made up at a suitable opportunity.
(2.) The Department may pay the University examination fees,
College lecture fees, and College laboratory fees in the prescribed
subjects, and bear the cost of necessary text-books required by
approved officers of the Engineering Branch desirous of obtaining the
degree of B.Sc. of the New Zealand University. Such officers may be
granted leave to attend lectures at a University for a term not exceeding four years, subject to the following conditions :-
(a.) The application for leave must be approved by the Permanent
Head. Such approval may be cancelled at any time if
the applicant's work and behaviour are not considered
satisfactory.
(b.) Progress reports may be obtained from the professors of the
various classes; and if these, in the opinion of the Per-
manent Head, show that the concession is being abused, or
that the student is not utilizing it to the best of his ability,
then the Permanent Head may cancel his approval of the
leave.
(c.) The leave during the college session-except the vacation
periods-may be eight hours per week during the first two
years, and ten hours per week during the third and fourth
years, and all such leave shall be on full pay.
77. In the event of any person ceasing to be an officer of the
Department during the currency of the period for which time off is
granted, or within three years of the termination thereof, he shall
be required to refund the cost of all books and University and
College fees paid by the Department, also an amount equal to the
value of the time off granted during the last year of such period if
such period has extended beyond three years.
78. The Permanent Head may grant to officers and to temporary
employees who are members of the Defence Force leave of absence
for the purpose of attending compulsory camps and courses of military
instruction. Leave of absence granted in pursuance of this regulation
shall not be deducted from the annual leave provided.
79. (1.) Special leave of absence may be granted to officers retiring
from the Department on the following conditions, provided that the