Parliament (Joint Services) Act 1985

An officer's entitlement to recreation leave shall accrue at the rate of 20 working days recreation leave for each year of service and a proportionate entitlement to recreation leave shall accrue in respect of each month of service.

Where, in the opinion of the Committee, there are special reasons for increasing an officer's entitlement to recreation leave, the

Subject to subsection (4)—

an officer may take recreation leave in respect of a particular financial year at any time during that financial year; and

an officer must take recreation leave that has accrued in respect of a particular financial year before the expiration of the next financial year.

Subsection (3) is subject to the following qualifications:

recreation leave may be taken only at such times as the Committee may approve;

where recreation leave is taken by an officer who ceases to be employed in the joint parliamentary service before the accrued entitlement to recreation leave equals or exceeds the number of days of recreation leave actually taken, the officer shall pay to the General Revenue of the State a sum calculated by the Committee as being the monetary equivalent of recreation leave taken in excess of the accrued entitlement; and

the

An officer shall, unless the Committee otherwise directs, take recreation leave on every day (not being a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday) falling between Christmas Day of each year and New

An officer who fails to take recreation leave as required by or under this section shall forfeit the entitlement to that leave.

Where a person ceases for any reason to be an officer before taking recreation leave which has accrued under this section, that person shall be entitled to the monetary equivalent of that leave.