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PASSAGES.
VIII-PASSAGES.
A. Officers Domiciled in Europe, Canada, Australasia and South Africa.
176. A person selected for appointment to a public office will, in the absence of any local law or regulation to the contrary, receive a free passage from England from Colonial funds for himself and for his wife and children not exceeding four persons besides himself. The person so appointed will be required to execute an agreement to refund the cost of the passage in certain contingencies.
177. When an officer is transferred from cze Colony to another, he will receive free passages by the cheapest and most direct route under similar conditions.
178. (1) An officer of this class on the permanent establishment is eligible for the privilege of free passages to his country of domicile, at the rate of 1/48th. in respect of each completed month of his resident service, of the cost to Government of a return passage if he is granted leave to such country in circumstances contemplating continuance of his service upon his return to the Colony and until retirement in the ordinary course, or of a single passage if he is granted leave in circumstances not contemplating such continuance: Provided that when such an officer has attained the age of 45 and completed twenty years in the Colonial Service the rate thereafter in his case will be 1/36th in respect of each such month.
(2.) Unless otherwise expressly provided in this order every such passage will be by passenger ship approved by the Government for the purpose, and the class of accommodation will be 'First' in the and case of officers whose salary scales go above £800 per annum, Nursing Sisters and School Mistresses, and 'Second' in the case of other officers.
(3.) If on account of the actual length of any tour of resident service such an officer becomes eligible for the grant of more than such cost of the passages of which he is able to avail himself at the expiration of such a tour, the balance may be placed to account for the benefit of the officer in respect of his future passages under this order.
(4) In the event of such an officer being granted leave to his country of domicile before he has become eligible for the grant of the
full cost to Government of his passage, a proportion of such cost will be paid by Government at the rate or combination of rates applicable
o his case.
(5.) If such an officer to whom the cost or a proportion of the cost of a return passage, or of return passages for himself and his family if he is married, has been granted leaves the Service within a period of two years from the date of his return to the Colony, except on retirement on grounds of age or ill-health, he may be required to refund half the amount of the grant.
(6.) A married officer may be granted, in respect of each tour of his resident service, the full cost or the appropriate proportion of the cost to Governinent of the passages of the same kind, as for himself, of his wife, his sons who have not attained the age of 16, and his unmarried dependent daughters, but so that the cost to Government docs not exceed four full fare passages besides his own passage.
(7.) If any such member of an officer's family proceeds home in advance of him, the officer may be granted in the first instance the full cost to Government of a passage to his country of domicile, on the understanding that adjustment, including any refund by the officer appearing thereon, will be made when he is next granted leave to such country and when the appropriate proportion, if he has not then become eligible for the grant of full cost to Government, can be ascertained: Frovided that
(a) any such grant will preclude any further grant in respect of
a passage to or from the Colony for the same member of the family until the officer himself shall have proceeded on leave to his country of domicile;
(b) no such grant shall increase the limited number of full-fare passages or the cost to Government mentioned in paragraph (6) above; and
(c) the whole of such cost shall be refunded if the officer leaves the Service in circumstances precluding such next grant of leave unless allowed to retire on grounds of age or ill-health
(8.) With the special permission of the Governor the cost or the appropriate proportion of the cost to Government of a single passage in lieu of half a return passage may be granted for any such member of an officer's family who is prevented from travelling to or from the Colony with the officer and within the period prescribed by the conditions of a return ticket.
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