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If exceptionally, for example, where compassionate leave is also involved, the military authorities send a signal, no charge is made.
It may be asked whether any general guidance can be given as to the type of case in which compassionate leave can be approved.
The point has been raised with me of pay for men and women on compassionate leave; especially when that leave is extended.
There is no compassionate leave from abroad but if the circumstances justify it a man may be posted back to this country for compassionate reasons.
Applications for compassionate leave or posting can be rejected by the applicant's commanding officer; applications for compassionate release only by an air officer commanding.
Has this airman been told that if he makes a further application in the future for compassionate leave it will be refused?
But if he is proceeding on short leave, other than compassionate leave—these things get very complicated as they go on—then he is not considered eligible.
Compassionate leave may be granted to any convicted prisoner when there is a good enough reason.
