AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENTS OF THE POLICE REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 2 of 1962

	The Police Regulations have no provision for the granting of sick leave to an officer who is sick during his recreation leave.  At present if an officer is sick during his recreation leave he is not entitled to claim sick leave and have the recreation leave granted for the days of sickness cancelled.

	Paragraph (c) of the amendments inserts a new sub-regulation in regulation 15AA to provide that where an officer is sick for a period of not less than four days during recreation leave he may be granted sick leave for that period in lieu of recreation leave if a doctor’s certificate is produced certifying that the officer was unfit for duty and confined to his home or to hospital.