AN160268 – Public Service Award 1992
(1) Officers including casuals shall on the death of:
(a) the spouse or de-facto partner of the officer;
(b) the child or step-child of the officer;
(c) the parent or step-parent of the officer;
(d) the brother, sister, step brother or step sister; or
(e) any other person who, immediately before that person's death, lived with the officer as a member of the officer's family;
be eligible for up to two (2) days paid bereavement leave, provided that at the request of an officer the Employer may exercise a discretion to grant bereavement leave to an officer in respect of some other person with whom the officer has a special relationship.
(2) The two (2) days need not be consecutive.
(3) Bereavement leave is not to be taken during any other period of leave.
(4) Payment of such leave may be subject to the officer providing evidence, if so requested by the employer, of the death or relationship to the deceased that would satisfy a reasonable person.
(5) An officer requiring more than two (2) days bereavement leave in order to travel overseas in the event of the death overseas of a member of the officer's immediate family may, upon providing adequate proof, in addition to any bereavement leave to which the officer is eligible, have immediate access to annual leave and/or accrued long service leave or leave without pay provided all accrued leave is exhausted.
