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Terms of appointment: (cont'd)
will apply and seconded officers will retain 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 vill 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 Fay
The officer ill 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 bisic salary earned. 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 proserved 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;
(c) Agreement - by transfer from
agreement terms with the Covernment
The officer will be released from his existing agreement with the Government to serve on similar agreement terms with the Commission. In this even
such
factors us mid-tour appointments,
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