Section 2.
General administrative instructions.
benefits which he has received under these rules in respect of that study leave
and to the refund of any additional monies received under them.
(4) The minimum period of study which will render an officer eligible for
study leave shall be two months.
(5) The minimum period of leave granted solely as study leave shall be six
months. Time spent on the journey to and from India by an officer whose
study leave is not combined with any other kind of leave will reckon as
study leave, but the allowance specified in Rule 10 will not be granted during
the period of the journey. An officer whose study leave is combined with any
other kind of leave will, however, be required to take his period of study leave
at such a time as to retain, at its conclusion, a balance of other previously
sanctioned leave sufficient to cover his return journey to India.
When an officer has been granted a definite period of study leave and finds
after arrival in England that his course of study will fall short of the sanc-
tioned period to any considerable extent, his absence from India will be reduced
by the excess period of study leave unless ho produces the assent of the
authorities in India to his taking it as ordinary leave.
(6) Study leave can be combined with any other kind of leave, provided
the period occupied in study is not less than two months and, in the case of
leave granted on medical certificate, provided that the Medical Board at the
India Office certifies that the officer is fit for study. The total period of leave
granted in the first instance (study leave combined with any other leave) will
not exceed one year.
(7) Except as provided in Rule 8, all applications for study leave shall
be submitted for approval, with the Audit Officer's certificate, to the D. V. S.
through the prescribed channel ; and the course or course of study contemp-
lated, with details as to institutions at which study will be undertaken, details
of commencement and termination of each course, and any examination the
candidate proposes to undergo, shall be clearly specified therein.
A copy of the approved programme of study will be forwarded by the
D. V. S. to the Under Secretary of State, Military Department, India Office.
If it is not possible for an officer to give full details, as above, in his original
application, or if, after arrival in England, he wishes to make any changes in
the programme which has been approved by the D. V. S., he should immediate-
ly on arrival in England apply to the Under Secretary of State, Military De-
partment, India Office, for a form on which to submit the required particulars.
In such cases the officer should not, unless prepared to do so at his own risk
commence his course, nor incur any expenses in connection therewith, until
he receives approval to the course through the Under Secretary of State,
Military Department.
(8) Officers on leave who wish to have part of their leave converted into
study leave or to undertake a course of study during leave, should, before
commencing study and before incurring any expenses in connection there-
with, submit a programme of their proposed course of study to the Under
Secretary of State, Military Department, India Office, on a form which can
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