Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:108:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 108 (pt 2/5)
Character Range: 1444081–1446597

employee of another person:
 (a) was granted leave of absence on account of illness for a period in respect of which the veteran was absent from his or her employment for a reason referred to in paragraph (2)(a), (b), (c) or (d);
 (b) was, during a subsequent period of that year, absent from his or her employment by reason of:
 (i) any illness or disease; or
 (ii) undergoing treatment related to any illness or disease;
  other than a war‑caused illness or a war‑caused disease; and
 (c) has incurred loss of salary or wages as a result of absence from his or her employment referred to in paragraph (b) of this subsection;
loss of earnings allowance may be granted to the veteran, in respect of that loss of salary or wages, for the period in respect of which the veteran suffered that loss.
 (6) Where, in a year, the period, or aggregate of the periods, for which loss of earnings allowance is payable to a veteran by virtue of subsection (5) has equalled:
 (a) the period, or aggregate of the periods, referred to in paragraph (5)(a) for which the veteran has been absent from his or her employment in that year; or
 (b) a period equal to the period credited, or notionally credited, in respect of the veteran for that year, under the terms and conditions of his or her employment, by way of sick leave credit (however described);
whichever is the less, loss of earnings allowance is not payable to the veteran by virtue of subsection (5) in respect of any part of the remainder of that year.
 (7) Loss of earnings allowance is not payable to a person under this section in respect of any period in respect of which the person is paid pension under Part II at the rate specified in subsection 24(4).
 (8) The amount of loss of earnings allowance payable to a veteran by virtue of subsection (2) or (5) in respect of loss of salary or wages, or of earnings on his or her own account, (in this subsection referred to as the relevant loss of remuneration) suffered by the veteran in respect of a period (in this subsection referred to as the relevant period) is:
 (a) an amount equal to:
 (i) unless subparagraph (ii) or (iii) applies—the amount of pension that would be payable to the veteran in respect of the relevant period if the veteran were a veteran to whom section 24 applied and the veteran's pension were required to be calculated at the rate specified in subsection 24(4) (in this subsection that amount of pension is referred to as the maximum amount in respect of the relevant period);
 (ii) if the