Division 5: Non-warlike deployments – additional recreation leave

 

TAX ALERT: PACMATE Annex 3.B, item 188.

17.9.32   Purpose

 

The purpose of additional recreation leave for non-warlike deployments is to enable a member to obtain relief from military and environmental hazards in an operational area.

17.9.33   Member this Division applies to

 

This Division applies to a member for any period in which they are deployed to a non-warlike operation.

17.9.34   Rate of accrual

 

The member accrues additional recreation leave up to a maximum of 10 days a year on a pro-rata basis for the period of their non-warlike deployment.

Related Information: Chapter 5 Part 2 Division 6 explains the administrative arrangements for additional recreation leave.

17.9.35   Effect on other leave

 1.

The member does not accrue extra recreation leave credit for difficult or prolonged duty for any period when they accrue leave credit under this Division.

See: Chapter 5 Part 2 Division 4, Extra recreation leave

2.

Travelling leave taken for relief-out-of-country travel between Australia and a deployment is a non-accruable form of additional recreation leave.

 

a.

If the leave was leave taken before 18 February 2011, it attracted payment of deployment or international campaign allowance.

 

b.

If the leave was taken on or after 18 February 2011, it does not attract payment of deployment or international campaign allowance but it does not break continuity for the payment of those allowances for accrued leave types.

 

PACMAN                                                              AL13 (November 2011)                              Chapter 17 – Part 9 Division 5 – 1