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Section 2.
SECTION 2.—GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS.
11. Army in India Reserve of Officers.—The rules governing the ap-
pointment of officers to the veterinary category of the Army in India Reserve
of Officers are contained in a separate publication entitled Regulations for
the Army in India Reserve of Officers.
12. Confidential Reports.—(i) Instructions for the submission of con-
fidential reports on officers are contained in R. A. I. and M. S. Circular No. 72
(ii) Confidential reports on veterinary assistant surgeons, British soldiers
and clerical personnel, will be submitted in accordance with Appendix B.
13. Leave.—The rules regarding the grant of leave to officers and other
ranks are laid down in Military Leave Rules (India).
14. Rules for the grant of study leave to officers of the R. A. V. C. of the
Continuous Indian Service Cadre.—Extra
leave for the purpose of
study will be granted by the Government of India to R. A. V. C. officers
of the Continuous Indian Service Cadre on the recommendation of the D. V. S.
in India.
(2) The period of study leave will be calculated at the rate of one-twelfth
of pension service upto a total of 12 months in all during an officer's service.
(3) Study leave may be taken at any time, but an officer who retires except
on account of ill-health, not later than three years, from the date of return
to India after taking study leave, shall be liable to the cancellation of any
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 re-
duced by the excess period of study leave unless he 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 courses of study contem-
plated, 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.