61AFPaid annual leave

#### 61AF Paid annual leave (1) The work agreement must provide that the seafarer is entitled to at least 2.5 days of paid annual leave for each month of service on board the ship. Calculating service (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a period of service by the seafarer on board the ship is a period during which the seafarer is employed or engaged in relation to the ship, but does not include: (a) any period of unauthorised absence; or (b) any period of unpaid leave. Paid annual leave not to include other absences (3) The work agreement must not provide that the seafarer is on paid annual leave during any of the following periods: (a) a period that is a public holiday in the Australian Capital Territory; (b) a period during which the seafarer is incapacitated for work as a result of illness or injury; (c) a period of any other type of absence authorised under the work agreement.