8. Leave Enjoyment

Chapter VIII
Leave Enjoyment

70. Every service personnel who performs full time duties has the right to enjoy leave. However, the person authorized to grant leave shall refuse the leave request, cancel the granted leave, recall the service personnel on leave, alter the kind of leave applied for and reduce the number of days of leave requested if necessary for the interests of the public.

71. Leave record shall be maintained for every service personnel and he is entitled to enjoy leave according to the period prescribed in this record.

72. A probationary service personnel is entitled to enjoy leave like a permanent service personnel.

73. In granting leave according to the post:
(a) leave may be granted to the gazetted officers by the head of the relevant Ministry and the organization or the authorized person;
(b) leave may be granted to the staff by the head of service personnel organization or the authorized person.

74. Leave ordinarily starts on the day when the duty is handed over and ends on the preceding day when the duty is resumed. When the immediate preceeding day on which a service personnel’s leave starts or the immediate following day on which his leave expires is a holiday, these holidays shall not be counted as leave. However, when both of these days are holidays, one of them shall be counted as leave.

75. A service personnel on leave shall not be permitted to be employed in any other paid job during leave period. However a service personnel on leave preparatory to retirement has the right to be employed in any other paid job and his application for retirement shall not be withdrawn.

76. A service personnel on leave may, if necessary, be recalled for the interests of the public. In recalling so, the service personnel shall not have the right to refuse and return compulsorily. Such service personnel shall be entitled as follows:
(a) treating as on duty from the date on which the person sets out from the place where he enjoys the leave to the duty station;
(b) permitting the travel allowance for the journey from the place where the person enjoys the leave to the duty station according to schedule(2);
(c) permitting the leave salary until the preceding day of resuming his duty.

77. A service personnel who has taken medical leave has the right to resume his duty only on submission of a medical certificate of fitness in the prescribed form. Even though a service personnel has not taken medical leave but taken other kind of leave on medical ground, a medical certificate of fitness also has to be submitted when resuming his duty.

78. If a service personnel on leave desires to resume his duty before the expiry of leave period,he may resume with the permission of the relevant person authorized to grant leave.