[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 699]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
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[CITE: 5CFR630.703]

[Page 707]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 630--ABSENCE AND LEAVE--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart G--Shore Leave
 
Sec. 630.703  Computation of shore leave.

    (a) An employee earns shore leave at the rate of 1 day of shore 
leave for each 15 calendar days of absence on one or more extended 
voyages.
    (b) (1) For an employee who is an officer or crewmember, a voyage 
begins either on the date he assumes his duties aboard an oceangoing 
vessel to begin preparation for a voyage or on the date he comes aboard 
when a voyage is in progress. The voyage terminates on the date he 
ceases to be an officer or crewmember of the oceangoing vessel or on the 
date on which he is released from assignment of his duties relating to 
that voyage aboard the oceangoing vessel at the port of origin or port 
of final discharge, whichever is earlier.
    (2) For an employee other than an officer or crewmember, a voyage 
begins on the date of sailing and terminates on the date the oceangoing 
vessel returns to a port at which the employee will disembark in 
completion of his assignment aboard the vessel, or on the date he is 
released from his assignment aboard the vessel, whichever is earlier.
    (c) In computing days of absence, an agency shall include (1) the 
beginning date of a voyage and the termination date of a voyage; (2) the 
days an employee spends traveling to join an oceangoing vessel to which 
assigned when the vessel is at a place other than the port of origin; 
(3) the days an employee spends traveling between oceangoing vessels 
when the employee is assigned from one vessel to another; (4) the period 
representing the number of days within which an employee is reasonably 
expected to return to the port of origin when his oceangoing vessel's 
voyage is terminated, or his employment as an officer or crewmember is 
terminated, at a port other than the port of origin; (5) for an employee 
who is an officer or crewmember, the days on which he is on sick leave 
when he becomes sick during a voyage (whether or not continued as a 
member of the crew) but not beyond the termination date of the voyage of 
the oceangoing vessel or his repatriation to the port of origin, 
whichever is earlier; (6) for an employee other than an officer or 
crewmember, the days on which he is carried on sick leave but not beyond 
the date on which he returns to the port of origin or the termination 
date of the voyage, whichever is earlier; and (7) the days of approved 
leave from a vessel (paid or unpaid) during a voyage.