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the person shall be deemed, during the period commencing on the day immediately following the day on which the person is so deemed to have retired from the Service and ending on the day immediately preceding the day on which the person was so re-appointed, to have continued in the Service and to have been absent from duty on leave of absence without pay, and the relevant Secretary shall determine whether that period, or any part of that period, is to form part of the officer's period of service for any purposes under this Act or any other Act (other than the Superannuation Act 1976) and, if so, the purposes for which it is to form part of the period of the officer's service.
"(6) In this section, 'relevant Secretary', in relation to a person who is deemed to have retired from the Service in accordance with sub-section 66a (2) or (4), means the Secretary of the Department in which the person held an office, or was included, immediately before being deemed to have so retired or, if that Department has ceased to exist, the Secretary of such Department as the Board directs.".
(2) Notwithstanding the repeal made by sub-section (1), section 66b of the Principal Act continues to apply in relation to any application made to the Board under that section before that repeal took effect.

Leave of absence for recreation
63. Section 68 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) and paragraph (7) (b) "Chief Officer" and substituting "relevant Secretary".

Payment in lieu of recreation leave for certain officers
64. Section 68b of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-sections (2) and (3) "Chief Officer" and substituting "relevant Secretary".

Payment to dependants on death
65. Section 68c of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-sections (2), (3) and (4) "Chief Officer" (wherever occurring) and substituting "relevant Secretary".

Leave of absence on account of illness
66. Section 70 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) "Chief Officer" and substituting "relevant Secretary"; and
     (b) by omitting from sub-section (4) "a Chief Officer" and substituting "the relevant Secretary".

Other leave of absence
67. Section 71 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) "Chief Officer" and substituting "relevant Secretary"; and

     (b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (4) (c) (ii) "Chief Officers" and substituting "Secretaries".

Repeal of section 75a
68. (1) Section 75a of the Principal Act is repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding the repeal effected by sub-section (1), section 75a of the Principal Act continues to apply in relation to a person who was a former officer of the Northern Territory Service within the meaning of that