CEYLON GOVT. GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY
SEPT. 22, 1947 1899
Governor or the Public Service Commission, the advertisement notice should be approved by the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry before publication.
11. The claims of officers for promotion will be considered on the basis of seniority, official qualifications, experience and merit. Re- commendations for promotion must state whether the officer recommended is the senior eligible officer, and where this is not the case detailed reasons must be given in respect of each officer over whom it is proposed that the officer selected should pass.
12. The procedure for making salaried acting appointments and seconded appointments shall, so far as circumstances permit, be the same as that prescribed below for making appointments. When re- commending a salaried acting appointment it should be stated whether or not the officer recommended for acting appointment is in every way fully qualified to perform all the duties of the office in which he is to act. (Vide Financial Regulation 1101 (ii)).
13. (i.) When it is necessary to appoint an officer to act in a post which is not in the same grade or class as that in which such officer is serving, the Head of Department will make his recommendation to the Permanent Secretary for such acting appointment as long as possible before the date on which the appointment is to take effect.
(ii.) When acting appointments are to be made consequent on officers going on leave out of the Island or retiring from the service, recommendations for acting appointments should be made at least three months in advance.
14. The procedure indicated in Regulation 24 or in Regulation 26, whichever is appropriate, should be followed when it is desired to select an officer for a special course of training which will enhance his qualifications for promotion or which is designed to fit him for a higher post.
15. Where the terms of an appointment provide an initial salary or allowance for a probationary period, with a higher salary on con- firmation, the initial salary for the purposes of Regulations 20, 26 and 27 below is the salary to be awarded on confirmation.
16. Where serious inconvenience is likely to be caused by the delay involved in carrying out the procedure prescribed in the fol- lowing Regulations for making appointments, the
appointments, the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry concerned or other appropriate authority should report the matter to the Chairman, Public Service Commission, who may make an acting appointment without regard to that pro- cedure or, if the appointment is one requiring the approval of the Governor, recommend an acting appointment to the Governor.
17. Appointments to posts of Permanent Secretaries and Assistant Permanent Secretaries to Ministries, posts of Heads and Deputy Heads of Departments, posts to which statutory duties are attached and appointments of Civil Servants to any post shall be notified in the Ceylon Government Gazette by the Public Service Commission if the appointments have been made by the Commission (vide Regulation 26) or on its recommendation (vide Regulations 22, 23, 24 and 25).
18. In the case of appointments requiring the approval of the Governor or the Public Service Commission letters of appointment will be issued to the selected officers by the Secretary to the Public Service Commission.