The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Dissolution) Order in Council 1963

14.—(1) On the date of the termination of his services there shall be paid to—

(a)an officer, Prison officer, employee or person under contract, if this service with the Federal Government or Federal Assembly, as the case may be, amounts to not less than one year; and

(b)a member, if his pensionable service amounts to not less than one year;

the cash equivalent of any vacation leave accrued to him, calculated—

(i)in the case of a Public Service officer who is not a Rhodesia House employee, at the rate of salary of that officer together with any allowance received by him which the Federal Minister of Finance has declared to be part of the salary of an officer for the purposes of the Terminal Benefits Regulations in calculating the cash in lieu of leave payable under those Regulations;

(ii)in the case of a Federal Assembly officer, a Prison officer, a Rhodesia House employee or a person under contract, at the rate of salary received by him;

(iii)in the case of an employee, at the rate of pay received by him, including, in the case of a Branch IV employee who is a Southern Rhodesia employee as defined in sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 11, any quarters allowance received by him as part of his emoluments;

(iv)in the case of a member, at the rate of pay and allowances that he would have received had he proceeded on vacation leave on the day immediately preceding the date of the termination of his services.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph—

(a)a member who is serving on an initial engagement and whose pensionable service amounts to not less than one year shall be treated as though he had accrued vacation leave at the rate of twenty days per annum during the period of his engagement:

Provided that any fraction of a day of such vacation leave shall be ignored;

(b)a Public Service officer or Public Service employee who was appointed to the Federal Public Service on the 2nd January 1963 and whose date of the termination of his services is the 31st December 1963 shall be deemed to have had one year's service with the Federal Government.