Quarantine Leave

Quarantine Leave

86. Quarantine leave is a leave granted to a service personnel to be absent from work as a consequence of an infectious disease in the family or the household. The service personnel enjoying this kind of leave shall be regarded as on duty. Quarantine leave:
(a) shall be granted by the head of relevant service personnel organization only with the recommendation of medical practitioner from township, rural or administrative unit hospital;
(b) may ordinarily be granted up to 21 days but it shall be extended up to 30 days in special circumstance;
(c) maybe granted in continuation of the other kind of leave before and after it;
(d) shall be entitled to full pay on duty during the leave period;
(e) no one shall be appointed in the place of the service personnel on quarantine leave.