33. Sick Leave
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(1) Sick leave may be granted by the officer in charge of a Fire Station to any other member below the rank of the officers in charge on the production of a medical certificate signed by a government medical officer.
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(2) When sick leave is granted to a member of the Fire Service in excess of 28 days in any one year except where such leave has been granted as a result of injuries received in the execution of duty the excess will be deducted from his or her ordinary leave entitlement. Days spent in hospital shall not be counted as sick leave.
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(3) When a period of sick leave granted under subregulation (2) expires and the member of the Fire Service to whom the leave is granted is not fit to resume duty further sick leave may be granted by the Chief Fire Officer on a further certificate signed by a government medical officer for a period which shall not exceed in the aggregate 3 months including the period of such leave previously granted under subregulation (2).
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(4) Any station officer, subordinate officer or fire fighter who has been on continuous sick leave for 3 months shall be required to submit himself or herself for examination by a medical board consisting of not less than 2 government medical officers. On the recommendation of the medical board a station officer, subordinate officer or fire fighter in whose case the medical board certifies that there is a reasonable prospect of eventual recovery, may be granted sick leave with full pay up to a maximum period, including any period of sick leave granted under subregulations (1) and (2) of this regulation, not exceeding 6 months in any year.
However, if the illness or incapacity is due to an injury or illness suffered by such station officer, subordinate officer or fire fighter in the actual discharge of his or her duties and without his or her own default and is on account of circumstances specially attributable to the nature of his or her duties, he or she shall be entitled to be granted further sick leave with full pay on the recommendation of the Chief fire fighter with the approval of the Minister.