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Part 5: Long service leave

Division 1: General provisions

5.5.1 Purpose

   Long service leave is intended to give an extended period away from work to a member who has served for 10 years or more.

5.5.4 Member this Part applies to

   This Part applies to a member on continuous full-time service.

5.5.5 Definitions

   In this Part the following apply.
   Long Service Leave Act means the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976.

5.5.6 Administrative concepts

2.  Long service leave credits are expressed in months and decimal parts of a month.
3.  A month is measured from the start date to the day before the same date in the next month. This rule applies no matter how many days there are in that month.
4.  When working out parts of a month, a month is taken to have 30 days.
6.  Leave may be granted in months and whole days.
8.  For the purpose of payment instead of long service leave, a month's salary is one-twelfth of a year's salary. This rule applies no matter how many days there are in that month.

5.5.7 Applying for long service leave

   A member must use the approved form to apply for long service leave.

Division 2: Entitlement to long service leave

5.5.8 Long service leave entitlement

1.  A member is entitled to a long service leave credit once the member has completed 10 years of accrued service.
2.  Long service leave credits are credited to a member on the completion of the following.
    a.                                                                                                                  10 years of accrued service.
    b.                                                                                                                  Each full year of accrued service thereafter.
3.  Annual long service leave credit is calculated on the following basis.
    a.                                                                                                                  If the member is not on a flexible service determination for any period during a completed year of accrued service, the member earns 0.3 of a month long service leave credit.
    b.                                                                                                                  If the member is on one or more flexible service determinations during a year of accrued service, the member's long service leave credit for the year is the sum of the long service leave credit for each period.
4.  For the purposes of paragraph 3.b, a member's long service leave credit is calculated using the following formula.

                                                                                                                        Where:
                                                                                                                        Days                                                                                                                                                                                                                is the numbers of days in the period.
                                                                                                                        Hrs                                                                                                                                                                                                                 is the number of hours worked each week calculated using the following.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             – Eight hours for any full day of duty.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             – The number of duty hours under the flexible service determination for any part day.

5.5.9 Eligibility to take leave

1.  A member