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Enclosure No.1.
GOVERNMENT QUARTERS AND ALLOWANCES IN LIEU
OF QUARTERS.
Part IV of General Orders is hereby deleted and the following substituted therefor:
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106.
In this Part
INTERPRETATION.
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(a)
(b)
(၁)
"Dependants" means the dependants of a male officer, namely his wife, sons under 18 years of age and unmarried daughters, or any of them, who reside with him, or whom he is liable to maintain;
"entitled" means entitled under the terms of an officer's employment or a General Order;
"officer" means an officer personally resident in this Colony, and does not include a married woman or a dependant;
(a) "quarters" means a tenement owned or rented by the Government;
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(e)
(e)
(g)
(h)
(i)
"rent" means monthly rent or, in relation to a tenement owned and occupied by an officer or to lodgings under a contract for board and lodging, a sum fixed by the Assessor, and includes rates paid by an officer as tenant;
"rent allowance" means the monthly allowance referred to in General Order 109.
"salary" includes pay, acting pay and personal allowance but no other allowance; and where expressed in dollars or sterling means annual salary;
"senior superscale post" means a post in Part I of Appendix VI;
"tenement" means a house or part of a house let, used or occupied as a separate dwelling, and includes a cubicle or group of cubicles".
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QUARTERS AND RENT AND OTHER ALLOWANCES.
107.
Allotment of Quarters.
(1)
(2)
Quarters not for the time being reserved for the holders of particular posts may be allotted to officers on sterling salaries attached to the permanent pensionable establishment either singly or with others, by the Government in its absolute discretion with or without the advice and assistance of committees appointed for that purpose by the Governor.
Committees shall have regard, firstly, to the priorities set out in this Order and, secondly, to number of dependants, length of service and the convenience of officers and their dependants as well as of the Government.
(3) The order of priority for holders of the posts and members of
the services in Appendix VI, whether paid at the rates set out or not, shall be
(i)
(ii)
substantive holders of senior super-scale posts;
substantive holders of posts of which the fixed salary or the commencing salary is not less than £1,000, and
not officers on other scales, having/less than 10 years service, who are actually in receipt of a salary of not less than £1,000.
(iii) other officers.