All the
No
342.
Sir,
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Rece Prot 25 OCT
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 28th. September, 1911.
I have the honour to request your
instructions as to the acting-pay to be drawn by duty-pay officers and by other officers when acting in duty-pay appoint-
-ments.
2.
It appears to me that the duty-pay now
drawn by certain officers is in no sense a charge allowance
given in consideration of the performance of definite duties,
but is merely unpensionable salary and should be treated
accordingly in the calculation of acting-pay.
3.
If this view is accepted, a duty-pay
officer acting in another duty-pay appointment should draw half
the initial salaries of both appointments, all his own incre-
-ments and half the duty-pays of both appointments.
4.
Similarly a duty-pay officer who is
required to perform the duties of another duty-pay office as
well as his own, would under Colonial Office Regulation 77 be eligible to receive a maximum of half the duty-pay and half the salary of the other appointment. If the additional duties to be performed belonged to a non-duty-pay appointment no salary
would of course be available during the full-pay leave of the absent officer, and I can suggest no good reason therefore why any part of the duty-pay of an absent duty-pay officer should be claimable as of right by a duty-pay officer or any other officer who is carrying on the absentee's duties during his
full-pay
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&C.,
80.
&c...
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