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Members absent from duty : The absence of a member of a service from duty, whether on leave, on foreign service or on deputation or for any other reason and whether his / her lieu in a post borne on the cadre of such service is suspended or not, shall not, if he/she is otherwise fit, render him/her ineligible in his / her turn – for re-appointment to a substantive or officiating vacancy in the category, grace or post in which he / she may be an approved candidate, as the case may be, in the same manner as if he / she had not been absent. He / she shall be entitled to all the privileges in respect of appointment, seniority, probation and appointment as full member which he / she would have enjoyed but for his /her absence subject to his / her completing satisfactorily the period of probation on his / her return.