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Officers who
do not accept
the revised
conditions.
Revised Salaries
to be in
Hong Kong dollars.
Conversion Tables.
Incremental Dates.
Points at
which officers will convert.
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eligible and Form C will be the form on which you will be required to exercise your option. You will be required to exercise your option on Form C within three months from the date of receipt of Form A duly completed and this option will be irrevocable. You will not be able to elect in favour of any particular part or parts of the new conditions for which you have an option but must accept such conditions in full or remain on your existing terms. If you do not return the option form to me through the Head of your Department within the specified time, you will be deemed to have opted to remain on your present terms of service.
6. If you elect to remain on your present terms of service, you will on promotion be required to accept the new terms.
7. The salaries of all officers electing to come on to the new conditions of service will in future be on a Hong Kong dollar basis.
CONVERSION TABLES AND INCREMENTAL DATES.
8. Conversion tables for all grades of which the revised salaries have received final approval have been prepared and are available for inspection in the depart- ments concerned. Conversion to the points shown on these tables is however dependent upon an officer possessing the qualifications and experience stipulated for his or her grade and upon Government approval of his or her passing any intervening efficiency bars or promotion bars in the revised scale.
9. It will be necessary in a number of cases to amend incremental dates and if you will be personally affected you will be duly notified when you receive Form A. Otherwise you will retain your present incremental date.
10. You will note from the conversion tables that differences in the length of the old and the new scales have made it necessary, in many cases, to arrange for officers at two or three points on an old scale to convert
at the same point on a new scale. In such cases the following rules will apply:-
(a) In any case where two different points in the old scale convert to the same point in the new scale, the officer on the lower salaried point in the old scale will wait one year from 1st January, 1947, before proceeding to the next incremental point in the new scale and 1st January will henceforth be his incremental date. Where an officer is on the higher salaried point in the old scale, he will convert to the new salary indicated on 1st January, 1947, but will proceed to the next point in the new scale on 1st July, 1947. 1st July will henceforth be his incremental date.
(b) In any case where three different points in the old scale convert to the same point in the new scale, the officer on the lowest point will convert as shown in (a) above. The officer on the intermediate point will proceed to the next increment on the new scale on 1st September, 1947, and 1st September will henceforth be his incremental date. The officer on the highest point will proceed to the next increment in the new scale on 1st May, 1947, and 1st May will henceforth be his incremental date.
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scale with an
Where an officer converts to a new salary scale where officers at a point above a stipulated efficiency bar, such convert to a conversion will be subject to the Head of the Department efficiency bar. concerned signing a certificate that the standard of conduct and efficiency of the officer concerned has been such as to justify his being placed on the new scale above the efficiency bar and that he has the requisite qualifica- tions and experience. In cases where the Head of the Department concerned is not prepared to sign such a certificate, the officer concerned will convert to the new scale at the highest point below the efficiency bar.
12. Where the conversion tables indicate that an where officers officer will convert to a new salary scale at a point above convert above a promotion bar, such conversion will be subject to bar.
a promotion Government's approval.
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