9. Specifications of Joining Time

130. During the joining time, a service personnel is regarded as on full time duty. In respect of pay entitlement during the joining time:
(a) in transferring from an initial post to a new post, the service personnel is entitled to enjoy the lesser pay between the two posts of the pay for the old post or of the pay for the new post as the joining time pay;
(b) when a service personnel on leave is transferred to a new post at the end of the leave period, the joining time pay for the new post is as follows:
(i) if the leave is the earning leave, he is entitled to enjoy the last leave pay of the leave period;
(ii) if the leave is the leave without pay no joining time pay is entitled.

131. Although a service personnel has to join the post on the date following the end of the joining time and fails to do so, no pay or leave pay is entitled from the commencing date following the end of the joining time. A service personnel’s willful absence from duty without sufficient reasons after the expiry of joining time may be treated as an act of misbehavior and shall be taken action in accordance with the rules.