twelve months. The person so appointed will be 
required to execute an agreement to refund the cost 
of the passage in certain contingencies. 
When an officer is transferred from one Colony to 
another, he will receive free passages by the cheapest 
and most direct route under similar conditions. 
112. Officers will be granted vacation leave not 
exceeding three calendar months during and in respect 
of any two consecutive years’ service. It is not 
necessary that any specific period should elapse 
between two successive grants of vacation leave; bus 
an officer will not be granted his full three months 
at the beginning of a biennial period without some 
special reason. 
In Palestine, officers of senior grades may not 
accumulate vacation leave beyond three months, and 
officers of junior grades who are allowed 15 days’ 
leave per annum may not accumulate more than 
30 days. Half-pay leave not exceeding three months 
at one time may be commuted for half the period on 
full pay not oftener than once in three years. 
In Ceylon, vacation leave may be accumulated up 
to four and a-half months except in the case of an 
officer who is retiring. 
In Hong Kong, vacation leave is allowed at the 
rate of one-eighth of the resident service and may 
be accumulated up to five months. 
In the Straits Settlements it is one-sixth of the 
resident service and may be accumulated up to eight 
months subject to certain limitations. An officer is 
ordinarily expected to serve four years before taking 
leave and to give six months’ notice of his intention 
to apply for leave. 
In British Guiana, Jamaica, and Trinidad, officers 
must complete two consecutive years’ resident service 
except in cases of serious indisposition or urgent 
private affairs : and are allowed one and a-half months’