4. Terms of appointment :
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(a) Secondment
The officer will be released for service with the Commission on secondment terms. During second- ment the officer's promotion prospects in his substantive grade will be preserved in accordance with the provisions of approved department or grade policy and conditions of appointment. The provisions of ER 126 will apply and seconded officers will rotain seniority in their substantive rank/grade. Officers earning more than the minimum salary of the grade to which they are seconded will retain their present salary and incremental date. Officers earning less than the minimum salary of the grade to which they are seconded will enter at the minimum of that scale and will be eligible for an increment in the event that the period of secondment exceeds one year;
(b) Agreement On Leave Without Pay
The officer will be released for service with the Commission on leave without pay and will normally be appointed on agreement for a period of 2 years with a terminal gratuity of 25% of gross basic salary carned. The period of the agreement may be adjusted to cover such contingencies as mid-tour
appointments, leave and other factors likely to affect the agreement
period. Service on agreement terms will count for seniority and an officer's promotion prospects in his substantive grade will be preserved by consideration for promotion in absentia. Service on agreement, including terminal leave, will count as qualifying service for pension purposes but it will not count as pensionable service, as defined under the Fensions Regulations. At the end of the Agreement, including terminal leave earned, an officer may be offered a further agreement or he may revert to his parent department or grade. His service with the Commission would be taken into account for incremental
purposes on reverting to the salary scale of his substantive rank or grade;
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