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The
Regulations do not constitute a contract. between the Crown and its servants. Government reserves the right to alter
the terms and conditions of service as may become necessary from time to time."
.:
Version B, described as Memorandum of Conditions of
Service for Officers on Temporary Terms, contains an equivalent.
paragraph 2(1) -
nor
20 203 "The officer is subject to Colonial Regulations,
Government Regulations, Departmental Instructions and to any special Ordinances.or Regulations. which apply to the office or to the Department to which he is appointed."
Version C, headed "Memorandum on Conditions of Service
for Officers on month to month terms, has a different paragraph 2(1)
"The officer is subject to Colonial Regulations,
Government Regulations and Circulars, Departmental Instructions and to any Ordinances or Regulations which apply to the office or to the department to which he is appointed."
Paragraph 14(1) of Version C reserves to the Tovernment the "right to alter any of the terms of appointment and/or conditions
of service set out in this memorandum".
Versions D and E deal with Local Officers on Probation and
Offices on Temporary Terms and contain paragraphs in the same terms as
paragraph 2(4) in Version A. Thus all versions provide that an officer
shall be subject to" Government Regulations (which include C.S.Rs) and to Col. Regs. And all (with the exception of Version 8) state that the Government reserves the right to alter the terms and
conditions of service of the officer.
In versions A, D and E (but not Versions B and C) it is
stated that "These Regulations" do not constitute a contract
between the Crown and its servants. The Crown submitted that the
phrase "these Regulations", in its context, referred only to Colonial Regulations, and not to the other Regulations listed earlier in the relevant sub-banngrephe
think that this is
correct.
The phrase is not appropriate to include Orders,
C
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