Civil Service Personnel Rules

Maternity Leave

101. For a female service personnel, maternity leave:
(a) shall be entitled for six months from the date of the leave;
(b) shall not be granted in continuation of other kinds of leave;
(c) if requested with the evidence of medical certificate, the other kind of leave may be granted in continuation of maternity leave after it;
(d) in the condition of miscarriage, maternity leave shall be granted not more than six weeks on evidence of the medical certificate;
(e) in the condition of likelihood of miscarriage, maternity leave itself shall not be granted but only other appropriate kind of leave;
(f) in case of pre-eclampsia or eclampsia, the appropriate kind of leave shall be granted not more than six weeks on submission of the medical certificate without debiting against maternity leave;
(g) if a twin or more than two babies are born, six weeks shall be granted as additional maternity leave to care for babies after the date immediately at the end of ordinary maternity leave.
(h) if the husband of the concerned female service personnel giving birth to a baby is also a service personnel, he shall be granted two weeks to care for the baby. He is entitled to full pay and treated as on duty.

102. Leave salary during maternity leave is entitled to full pay.

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.

Hospital Leave

107. (a) Hospital leave is entitled to the service personnel who has to do fieldwork in the following departments:
(i) the forest ranger and the service personnel below such post in the Department of Forestry;
(ii) executive supervisors and the service personnel below such post in the Department of Settlement and Land Record;
(iii) survey or grade (3) and the service personnel below such post in the Survey Department.
(b) In addition, the service personnel who has to do fieldwork in remote areas from the Ministries and organizations may be granted hospital leave in coordination with the Union Civil Service Board and with the approval of the Union Government.

108. Hospital leave may be granted if the following conditions are fulfilled:
(a) illness is due to the performance of duties;
(b) there are sufficient reasons to believe that illness is due to the consequence of performing the duties;
(c) having the recommendation of the relevant doctor in respect of illness.

109. The leave pay for the period of hospital leave may be granted the full average pay or half average pay or part of the leave period on full average pay and remaining part of the period on half average pay as appropriate by the person authorized to grant leave.

110. In calculating the period of hospital leave:
(a) the entire period of actual hospitalization shall be counted as hospital leave if the leave pay is paid at full average pay;
(b) half of the period of actual hospitalization shall be counted as hospital leave if the leave pay is paid at half average pay;
(c) period of such hospital leave shall not exceed a total of three months during three years of service.