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Last Updated: 1 December 2016
[CIV 15,910] Payment of post allowance51
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(2) Subject to these Regulations, child allowance will be paid only for periods during which a dependant child is residing with the officers overseas.
(3) Subject to these Regulations, an officer is entitled to be paid the appropriate post allowances from the day of his or her arrival at the overseas post until the day of his or her departure from the post on a passage paid by Government or until the date of termination of his or her service at the post, whichever is the earlier, except during any period where an officer is accommodated at a hotel on arrival or immediately prior to departure from his or her overseas post and the officer receives reimbursement of expenses under regulation 35.
(4) Subject to these Regulations, post allowances will continue to be paid for—
- (a)all periods of leave except those for which passages are paid by Government; and
- (b)all periods of official duty which require the absence of the officer from his or her normal place of residence overseas, provided that no per diem allowance shall be paid under the General Orders in respect of any such absence.
(5) An officer serving on temporary duty at an overseas post is entitled to be paid such allowances as the Permanent Secretary may direct, provided that the allowances so authorised shall not exceed the allowances payable to permanent officers of equivalent rank.
[subreg (5) am LN 99 of 2016 reg 32, effective 1 December 2016]
Note:
Regulation 51(4) applies to all types of leave. If an officer accumulates annual leave and takes it on his or her return to Fiji or anywhere else on a passage paid by the Government, no post allowances are payable in respect of that leave.