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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

CHAPTER V. LEAVE: MEN.

90. Loan Personnel.—Foreign-service leave will be granted to loan personnel on return to England or on discharge to shore in New Zealand under the same conditions as apply in the Royal Navy.

Leave up to fourteen days per annum may be granted in the leave-year in which it arises in addition to the above. This leave may not be accrued from year to year. The leave-year for this purpose is to be reckoned in the same manner as that for officers, as shown in Article 80. In the last year of service in the New Zealand Division seven days’ leave may be granted for the first six months and one day’s leave for each completed month in periods of less than six months.

2. Provided the requirements of the service permit, loan personnel may be allowed to take their foreign-service leave in New Zealand. All leave taken in excess of fourteen days during any one leave-year is to be deducted from the foreign-service leave.

3. Re-engaging Leave: Loan Personnel.—With reference to King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, Articles 651 (2), 760 (3), the Admiralty have agreed that the cost of re-engaging leave earned by loan personnel is an Imperial liability.

4. Loan personnel entitled to re-engaging leave will not normally be allowed to take it until after reversion to the Imperial service; in exceptional cases the Naval Board may authorize this leave prior to reversion.

5. Any man for whom Naval Board approval has been obtained for re-engaging leave to be taken prior to reversion to the Royal Navy is to be paid at Imperial rates of pay and allowances during the period of re-engaging leave granted. To facilitate accounting in such cases the man’s regular ledger account should be closed for the period of the leave and reopened at the termination thereof. For the actual period of the leave he should be entered on a separate list of the ledger (list 22); all payments for the leave-period being made from that list, and the account therein closed at the end of the leave, showing a “Nil” balance. Balances creditor or debtor should not be transferred from the proper account to the leave account.

6. New Zealand Ratings.—Ratings who have regularly joined or who have been transferred to the New Zealand Division may be allowed twenty-eight days’ leave per annum. (N.B.—For the purpose of leave, ratings whose Royal Navy engagements have expired and who continue to serve in the New Zealand Division under their loan agreements are to be regarded as loan ratings.)

7. The leave-year for New Zealand ratings is to commence on the 1st April of each year.

8. Leave cannot be deferred from year to year, except that during the last three years of a man’s engagements he may have the option of deferring fourteen days of the twenty-eight days’ leave authorized, such leave to be allowed to accumulate and taken at the end of his engagement.

9. Ratings in this category who are proceeding to England for courses, subject to the exigencies of the service, may be granted ten days’ leave before departure from New Zealand in addition to the proportionate amount of leave then due to them in the current-leave year.

10. On return to New Zealand the ratings specified in (4) may be granted leave at the rate of fourteen days per annum, seven days for six months, and one day for each completed month in periods of less than six months, of absence from New Zealand, reckoned from the date of leaving New Zealand to the date of return, irrespective of any leave which may have been granted whilst absent from New Zealand. They may also be granted leave at twenty-eight days per annum (fourteen days for six months, and two days for each completed month in periods of less than six months) for the unexpired portion of the current New Zealand leave year, reckoned from the date of arrival in New Zealand: e.g., a man returning to New Zealand on the 1st May, in addition to his foreign service leave, would be entitled to twenty-four days’ leave before the subsequent 31st March.

11. Training Establishment.—Ratings under training in the Training Establishment may be granted leave as follows: Fourteen days at Christmas, fourteen days at Easter, fourteen days in August, each year.

12. Trainees joining a seagoing ship from the Training Establishment for the first time may be granted twenty-eight days’ leave in the current leave-year if they join before receiving Easter leave, or fourteen days if after receiving Easter leave. Drafting leave is not to be granted to ratings about to be discharged to sea service.