Special Disability Leave

Special Disability Leave

103. The head of the relevant Ministry and service personnel organization may grant special disability leave to the service personnel who is temporarily disabled due to injury in performing or in consequence of performing his duties or in consequence of his post or willful action of anyone. In granting so:
(a) disability shall be manifested within three months of the occurrence of the injury. The disabled service personnel shall inform such disability to the concerned promptly;
(b) the period of special disability leave shall be as the period certified by the medical board and such period shall not be exceeded 24 months;
(c) special disability leave may be granted in continuation of any other kind of leave;
(d) special disability leave may be granted due to the seriousness or reoccurance of primary disability. However, the period of special disability leave based on one disability shall not be exceeded 24 months totally;
(e) the period of special disability leave shall be counted as on duty in calculating the term of service for pension.

104. The leave salary, during special disability leave:
(a) shall be entitled to full average pay for the first four months;
(b) shall be entitled to half of average pay for the remaining period.The period of remaining earned leave may be granted at the full average pay as per the service personnel’s desire. In granting such leave, half of the period of full average pay shall be counted as special disability leave.

105. Special disability leave shall be granted in the following matters:
(a) in the case of injury accidentally during the performance of the official duties which is likely to endanger the life and body of the service personnel by its work nature;
(b) in the case of disability recommended by the medical board due to contracting an infectious disease as a direct consequence of any of the following causes:
(i) research on an infectious disease;
(ii) research to find out the cause of death by dissecting a dead body or a carcass died of any infectious disease;
(iii) carrying out prevention and treatment programmes of an infectious disease.
(c) in granting special disability leave in cases contained in sub-rules (a) and (b), the period recommended by the medical board may be granted partly as special disability leave and partly as any other kind of leave in continuation;
(d) special disability leave not exceeding a total of 24 months, may be granted to the service personnel, who continues to perform civil duties after getting disabled while in defense service or Myanmar Police Force.

106. Special disability leave shall not be granted to the persons on contract, seamen, service personnel on honorarium, the persons on expert pay and the service personnel on daily wages.