15
departments and in "professional and technical"
departments are normally broken by promotion bars,
beyond which advancement depenus upon the occurrence
of vacancies in a higher grade. The practice of
offering higher initial salaries in the case of those
departments for which officers are normally recruited
at a later age than for the Administrative Service (because they are required to spend a periou in
obtaining either further professional training or
practical experience) is also retained. On the other
hand the main features of the Administrative scale -
the stationary salary during the period of probation, the double increment after the first efficiency bar, and the abolition of the efficiency bar at £720 - have been extended to the other scales in so fur as they are
applicable. The scales are so arranged that in all cases the efficiency bar occurs on the completion of 9 years''service.
3. The actual standard scales proposed for application to the different departments are set out in the table
attached to tais memorandum. The special consiucretions which have been taken into account in framing these scales are discussed in the succeeding paragrapus. will be unuerstood that when the standard scales have been settled the method and extent of their application in the uifferent Depenencies will be a matter for
It
separate consideration. In particular, while it is dosir ble that all Dependencies should offer similar terms up to the "promotion bar" in each case, it is recognised that in some instances the establishments of the smaller Depenuencies will not afford scope for posts on
incremental scales above the bar.