(1) A judge is not entitled as of right to leave or leave passages.
(2) Leave is granted subject to the exigencies of the public service and the sums payable in respect of leave passages may be modified from time to time according to availability of public funds.
(3) The Chief Justice shall be entitled—
(a) to 42 days vacation leave annually and such leave may be accumulated up to a maximum of 168 days;
(b) to 24 days departmental leave annually; and
(c) to 28 days sick leave annually.
(4) A judge other than the Chief Justice is eligible for 42 days vacation leave annually of which not less than 14 days must be taken annually either in one period or in a series of periods according to the requirements of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission; and such leave may be accumulated up to a maximum of 126 days.
(5) A judge is eligible for leave passages every 4 years which may be—
(a) a return air passage, twice during the period he or she holds the office of a judge, for himself or herself and his or her spouse and ½ the cost of one adult return air passage in respect of his or her children to the United Kingdom or to some other destination if the cost of the passages to that destination does not exceed the cost of passages to the United Kingdom; and
(b) on other occasions an amount to be spent on air passages, equal to 2½ times the cost of a return air passage to any destination in the Caribbean specified for the purposes of this section by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission.
(6) A judge is also eligible for passages on first appointment to the State to which he or she is assigned for duty and for passages on retirement to his or her country of origin or to another place of retirement provided that the cost involved does not exceed the cost of passages to his or her country of origin. Passages on retirement are normally only granted where a judge has completed 3 years of service since his or her last overseas leave.
(7) Leave passages as prescribed by subsections (5) and (6) are provided for the judge, his or her spouse and children who are under the age of 18 years, unmarried, and dependent upon him or her, if—
(a) the cost of passages is limited to the equivalent of first class air travel; and
(b) the amount to be granted shall not exceed the cost of 2½ adult return passages, at the rate prescribed in paragraph (a) above—
(i) to the place where the leave is to be taken if the leave is taken within the territories covered by the jurisdiction of the Court, Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad;
(ii) to the United Kingdom if the leave is taken outside the territories covered by the jurisdiction of the Court, Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad.