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Compassionate Leave

The purpose of Compassionate Leave is to allow Service personnel an authorised period of absence to enable them to attend to a personal crisis.

The amount of Compassionate Leave which may be awarded rests with the Commanding Officer (CO), but it should exceed 4 weeks only in exceptional circumstances and only following a re-examination of the justification for continued absence.  Repeated periods of Compassionate Leave should rarely be authorised.

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