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These new regulations are clear, and
in some respects an improvement on the existing
regulations. One has naturally had in mind the
provisions of the draft scheme for the
Unification of the Colonial Administrative Service
in going through them, and it would be well if it
were possible to delay any decision on their
introduction as new Leave and Passage Regulations
for which existing officers may opt and which
will be applied to new officers, until the
forthcoming Circular goes out with the Colonial
Administrative Service Scheme.
The C.A.S. Scheme treats the period of
leave as being exclusive of the journey to and
from the Colony, and on that basis stipulates a
minimum ratio of 4 days' leave for each month
of service.
These Hong Kong Regulations maintain
the existing Hong Kong system of including the
period of the voyage in the period of leave
on that trusis
(see paragraph 4), and they fall short (see
paragraph 11 (1)) of the minimum stipulated in
the C.A. S. Scheme.
The limitation (see paragraph 11 (2))
to five months of the period of leave which can be
taken on retirement is in accordance with the
general principles of the leave system in the
Eastern Colonies, but it does not accord with the
principles of the C.A. S. Scheme, which would make
no part of the leave dependent on the officer's
returning for further service, but would allow
him on retirement the full amount earned by his
last tour of resident service.
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