Disability Resulting From War Service Leave Eligibility. Special leave with pay for war service disability leave may be granted to employees who served with the Australian Defence Forces and who are absent because of a disability accepted by the Department of Veterans Affairs: • as a war-caused injury or war-caused disease as defined under the Veterans Entitlement Xxx 0000 (Cth) (“the VE Act”); or • as a service injury or service disease arising from warlike service or non-warlike service as defined under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Xxx 0000 (Cth) (“the MCE Act”). For the purposes of this Determination, peacetime operations as defined under the MCE Act are not recognised as warlike or non-warlike service for the purposes of war service disability leave. Crediting of Leave War service disability leave is to be credited to eligible employees on the following basis: • a special non-cumulative war service disability leave credit equivalent to 9 weeks (to be recorded in hours) upon commencing employment in the Public Service or in a public sector agency to which section 16 of the PS Act applies. • a cumulative credit of the equivalent of three weeks per annum (to be recorded in hours) upon the employee’s annual service anniversary date. This entitlement will accumulate for 3 years (up to a maximum of the equivalent of 45 working days) and re-accumulate if used. • the maximum credit which may be accumulated in any service year is the equivalent of 45 working days inclusive of the current year’s credit, and this accumulative credit can be used only when the non-accumulative credit has been exhausted.
