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1836 CONVENTION-AMERICAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ. JAN. 9, 1930. 80bedaJe II-Contd. Equipment of Quarter8. 6. The Government shall, if possible, equip all Government houses occupied by officers with such electric light, fans and water as may be recommended by the Directorate of Health Services. Local Leave. 7. An officer may, at the discretion of the Government, be allowed local leave not exceeding twenty-one days in each calendar year. Such leave shall not be cumulative and shall not be combined with ordinary leave. When on local leave an officer shall be entitled to full salary. Ordinary Leave. 8.- (1.) An officer shall earn one day's ordinary leave for each five days of effective service. No leave other than local leave shall count as effective serv- ice. The period spent on voyages other than on first appointment shall be reckoned as ordinary leave. (2.) Ordinary leave shall be cumUlative. ~3.) Subject to the exigencies of the service, an officer may be granted ordi- nary leave at any time and may claim the right to take such leave as may be due to him- In a three years' contract-Once. In a five years' contract-Once. In a seven years' contract-Twice. In a ten years' contract-Twice. (4.) When on ordinary leave an officer shall be entitled to full salary. (5.) An officer on the expiry of his period of service, or on the termination of his contract ts the Government for any reason other than insubordination or misconduct, shall receive pay in lieu of any ordinary leave -\\- -hich is due to him and which owing to the exigencies of the service he has been unable to take. The amount so issued shall not in any case exceed nine months' salary. 9.- (1.) Short periods of absence from duty owing to sickness, not exceeding ten consecutive days, will be allowed in Iraq on ful~ salary. Any such absence extending beyond that period will be counted as sick leave. (2.) The aggregate amount of sick leave which an officer may be allowed on a three years' contract shall be eight months. (S.) If this aggregate amount is exceeded the Government shall have the right of terminating the contract without further notice. (4.) On each occasion of taking sick leave an officer shall receive full salary for a period up to four months and, thereafter, such leave as is due to him up to a further four months. If no leave or insufficient leave is due to him to cover the second four months he may complete the period by additional sick leave on half-pay. At the end of this period of eight months the Government shall have the right to terminate his contract without further notice or compensation. (5.) If his original contract or his contract as extended under clause 1 hereof exceeds three years, he shall come under the regulations as to sick leave laid down for civilian offiCials under clause 9 of schedule 3. (6.) Nothing in this clause shall in any way modify the obligations of the Iraq Government to pay an officer of the Imperial forces or Indian army on return from his employment until he is fit for duty in the Imperial or Indian establishment, as the case may be, subject to the maximum period of sick leave with full pay of hIs substantive rank and allowances as ordinarily issuable as provided in the regulations of the service concerned. Medical Attendance. 10. In Iraq an 01lLcer will be entitled to free medical treatment, but this privilege shall not extenfi to his family. penMMtlotlo of oontract b1I Gof1ernment. 11. In cases other than those provided for in clauses 9, 14 and 18, the Government shall have the right to terminate an ofBcer's contract on giving him three months' notice in writing. Such notice shall only be given with the consent of the senior British ofDcer attached to the Ministry of Defence. ItA. Where an ofBcer of the· Imperial forces or Indian army cannot be absorbed within the authorised estabUshment on termination of his service under the Iraq Government, that Government shall be Hable for his pay and allowances under the regulations of the service ~ncerned for the period during which be is awalUng absorption.