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fully-trained officer rather than by the qualifications required to become a student. We shall therefore be conducting a further review of these grades with a view to seeing whether the pay scales should be adjusted in the light of qualifica- tions obtained on completion of training, and having regard to the other factors used in setting pay scales. One possibility we shall be considering is the introduction of a separate training scale.
Salary on Promotion
3.13
Following the publication of our Report No. 2, we were asked to advise on the salary which should be paid to a civil servant on advancement to a direct entry rank with multiple entry points related to specific educational qualifications, when these qualifications are not held by the civil servant concerned. This question arose in relation to the disciplined services where members of the rank and file may be advanced to the officer ranks and in degree grades where, exceptionally, matriculants may be appointed and where there is also provision for the in-service appointment of suitable candidates from other grades.
3.14
Our advice was that in so far as the disciplined services are concerned, members of the rank and file should enter the officer rank pay scale at the point appropriate to direct entrants with the standard qualification; that is to say, at the school certificate entry point in the case of the Immigration Service and at the matriculation entry point in the case of the other disciplined services. In the case of degree grades where, exceptionally, matriculants may be appointed, the salary payable to an in-service appointee should be the salary applicable to the matriculant entrant.
Conversion Arrangements
3.15
In Report No. 1 we said that the conversion rules in existence at that time were complex and barely comprehensible and in certain circumstances displayed an excessive concern for the preservation of relative seniority within the scale. We recommended that new rules should be drawn up which provided that no civil servant should lose on conversion but the extent to which he benefited on conversion should not normally exceed one increment. In Report No. 2 we recommended how the new rules should be applied.
3.16
While we still maintain that the old rules were over-generous in certain circumstances, in the light of our experience of the operation of the revised rules introduced following our Report No. 2, we believe there is room for some improvement. We therefore propose that the normal rules of conversion set out in paragraph 19.8 of Report No. 2 should be replaced by the following, which in certain cases means that an additional increment is payable on conversion from the old scale to the new scale.