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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 86

sick-leave in the twelve months preceding retirement has not exceeded three months :—

(a.) Officers retiring on superannuation or compensation in lieu of superannuation, three months.

(b.) Officers of ten years’ service and under twenty years’ service retiring for their own purposes, one month.

(c.) Officers of at least twenty years’ service retiring for their own purposes, six weeks.

(d.) Officers dispensed with through no fault of their own before reaching the retiring-age or completing the necessary period of service: If under five years’ continuous service, one month; if five years’ and under ten years’, two months; if ten years’ or over, three months.

(e.) Women resigning to be married: Over five years’ service, one month; over ten years’ service, two months; over fifteen years’ service, three months.

(2.) In addition to the special leave referred to above, any annual leave which the Permanent Head has allowed to accumulate may be granted to the officer.

(3.) Wherever in the opinion of the Permanent Head the circumstances appear to warrant an extension of the above scale such an extension shall be made, but not exceeding double the period mentioned above.

80. Where an officer is retiring on superannuation or compensation after completing forty years’ service he may, at the discretion of the Permanent Head, be granted six months’ leave on full pay, or an equivalent payment in lieu thereof: Provided that the sick-leave taken by him during his service has not exceeded six months, or that he has not at any time been granted furlough on full or half pay.

81. (1.) Subject to these regulations, the following days, or any days authorized by the Governor-General in Council instead thereof, shall be observed as holidays in the Department—namely, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the King’s Birthday, Labour Day, and Anzac Day: Provided that, in addition, when a holiday is observed in other Government offices throughout the Dominion and such holiday cannot be observed by the Post and Telegraph Department, a day’s leave may be added to the ordinary leave due to an officer under Regulation 70, or equivalent time off may be granted.

(2.) Officers who cannot be granted the holidays specifically named in the preceding clause shall be paid overtime at rate and a half for all time worked, or shall be allowed equivalent time off.

APPEAL BOARD.

82. In Regulations 82 to 101 hereof “the Board” means the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board constituted under the said Act.

83. The elective members of the Board shall be elected by ballot. The elective members holding office at the commencement of these regulations shall, subject to Regulation 96 hereof, continue in office until their respective successors are declared elected. A ballot for elective members shall be taken on the fourth Wednesday in June, 1928, and on the same Wednesday in every third year thereafter. Such members shall, subject to Regulation 96 hereof, hold office until their respective successors are declared elected.

84. Prior to the date of each election there shall be prepared by the Permanent Head two separate lists of those persons who are officers in the Department twenty-eight days before the day on which the ballot is to be taken, viz. :—

(a.) The officers in the Postal Branch of the Department.

(b.) The officers in the Telegraph Branch of the Department.

Such lists shall be called the “electoral lists.” They shall be retained at the General Post Office, and may be inspected prior to the date of the election by officers claiming to be entitled to vote.

85. Only officers whose names are on any such list shall be entitled to vote: Provided that the validity of any election shall not be questioned on the ground that a name wrongly appears on a list or has been omitted therefrom.

86. In the case of an officer employed at a combined post and telegraph office and performing combined duties, the officer may, by notice in writing given to the Returning Officer on or before the first Monday in June immediately preceding the election, elect the branch with which he will vote, and his name shall be placed on