Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02927:body:0:p60
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02927
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the following formula:
    where—
        A is the number of days in the period; and
        B is the number of ordinary hours of duty per week that were applicable to the officer during the period.";
     (b) by inserting after sub-section (8) the following sub-sections:
        "(8a) Where—
        (a) an officer is, for a particular period (in this sub-section referred to as the 'actual period of absence'), absent from the Service on leave of absence for recreation granted, or deemed to have been granted, to him in accordance with this section or the regulations;
        (b) the absence is attributable to a leave credit that accrued to the officer in respect of a particular period (in this sub-section referred to as the 'accrual period'); and
        (c) the number of ordinary hours of duty per week (in this sub-section referred to as the 'current hours of duty') that are applicable to the officer immediately before the absence is different from the number of ordinary hours of duty per week (in this sub-section referred to as the 'former hours of duty') that were applicable to the officer during the accrual period,
    the following provisions have effect:
        (b) the officer shall be deemed, for the purposes of sub-section (8) not to have been absent from the Service for the actual period of absence but for a number of hours (in this sub-section referred to as the 'adjusted number of hours') calculated in accordance with the following formula:
      where—
          C is the number of hours in the actual period of absence;

          D is the number of former hours of duty;
          E is the number of current hours of duty;
        (e) the officer shall be entitled to be paid in respect of the actual period of absence, in lieu of the amount that would otherwise be payable to him, an amount equal to the amount that would be payable to him if he were absent from the Service, on leave of absence for recreation granted to him in accordance with this section, for the adjusted number of hours.
    "(8b) For the purposes of sub-section (8a), absences from the Service shall be taken to be attributable to leave credits that accrue in respect of particular periods in the same order as the order of occurrence of the periods in respect of which the leave credits accrue."; and
     (c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:
    "(13) The regulations may provide that where the ordinary hours of duty of an officer during 2 or more periods in the year last preceding 1 January in a particular year have been different, the ordinary hours of duty of the officer shall, in the circumstances prescribed in the regulations, be deemed for