War service to be reckoned in determining compensation.
7(1)If an officer was temporarily absent from his office during the late war Whilst serving in His Majesty's forces, or the forces of the Allied or Associated Powers, either compulsorily or with the sanction or permission of the authority in whose employment he was immediately before such temporary absence, such period of temporary absence shall be reckoned as a period of service in his office:
Provided that in the case of an officer who, after the eleventh day of November, nineteen hundred and eighteen, voluntarily extended his term of service in the forces, no period of absence during any such extension shall be reckoned.
(2)Any period during which an officer has been engaged in war service within the meaning of the Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act, 1939, shall be reckoned as a period of service in his office.