18Calculation of long service leave credit

18 Calculation of long service leave credit

(1) For the purposes of sections 16 and 17: (a) the long service leave credit of a category A employee on a day is the period equal to the number of months ascertained in accordance with the formula: Start formula start fraction 3a over 10 end fraction minus b end formula where: a is the number of years comprised in the part of his or her period of service that accrued before the prescribed day; and b is the number of months comprised in the period or the sum of the periods of long service leave (if any) previously granted to him or her; (b) the long service leave credit related to the full‑time service of a category B employee on a day is the period equal to the number of months ascertained in accordance with the formula: Start formula start fraction 3c over 10 end fraction minus d end formula where: c is the number of years comprised in a period equal to the period, or the sum of the periods, of his or her employment in a full‑time capacity included in the part of his or her period of service that accrued before the prescribed day; and d is the number of months comprised in the period, or the sum of the periods, of long service leave (if any) previously granted to him or her in relation to his or her full‑time service; and (c) the long service leave credit related to the part‑time service of a category B employee on a day is the period equal to the number of months ascertained in accordance with the formula: Start formula start fraction 3e over 10 end fraction minus f end formula where: e is the number of years comprised in a period equal to the period, or the sum of the periods, of his or her employment in a part‑time capacity included in the part of his or her period of service that accrued before the prescribed day; and f is the number of months comprised in the period, or the sum of the periods, of long service leave (if any) previously granted to him or her in relation to his or her part‑time service. (2) In this section, prescribed day means: (a) in relation to a long service leave credit of an employee on the day on which he or she ceases to be an employee—the day immediately following the last day of the last completed month in the employee’s period of service ending on the day on which he or she ceases to be an employee; or (b) in relation to a long service leave credit of an employee on any other day—the day immediately following the last day of the last completed year of service included in the employee’s period of service ending on that other day.