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for such employees shall be reduced to the net rate which would be payable under this Order if the normal rate were subject to the levy.
Explanatory notes:-The normal rate of remuneration for temporary clerks is Rs.1.70 per diem. It should be assumed that this rate represents a remuneration of Rs.510 per annuin (Rs.1.70 x 300) and the reduced rate for temporary clerks should therefore be Rs.1.62. The same principle should be applied to other temporary employees, e.g., extra Fiscals' Peons, substitutes for members of the uniform staff of the Post and Telegraph Department.
8. The remuneration of part-time employees is subject to the levy provided that such remuneration exceeds Rs. 10 per mensem and is not expressed in the form of fees for specific services.
Explanatory notes:—Receiving Officers of the Post and Telegraph Department are parr- time employees; they will be exempt from the levy if their official remuneration does not exceed Rs. 10 per mensem, The levy is not recoverable on fees (see definition of salary in Section 1): thus the fees payable to Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages and the fees payable to special or visiting Lecturers at the University College or the Medical College are not subject to the levy. If in the opinion of the head of a department some reduction of authorized fees is called for, he should take up the question separately as one not requiring treatment under this Order.
9. Public servants seconded for employment will pay the levy on the basis of their seconded salaries, if these salaries are chargeable to Governments funds. In any case where the seconded salary is partly chargeable to Government funds the levy will be recovered on the portion so chargeable.
Explanatory notes:-An officer of the Civil Service is seconded for employment in an office or the establishment of Government but not graded in the Civil Service: he will pay the levy on the seconded salary, If, however, such an officer is seconded for employment under a local authority or under another Government and the whole of his seconded salary is met by the local authority or the other Government, he will not pay any levy to the Ceylon Government and no claim will be preferred by the Ceylon Government against the employing authority.
10 The sums payable to probationers, learners, or officers in training to cover the cost of maintenance or to supplement the salary, if any, drawn by such proba- tioners, learners, or officers in training are not subject to the levy.
Explanatory notes:—The object of this Section is to exclude from the operation of the Order payments which are in effect maintenance or subsistence allowances payable during periods of training, e.g., Excise learners, Irrigation learners, Forest probationers, Survey probationers, Railway probationers undergoing special courses of training abroad, &c., will be paid their maintenance allowances without deduction. If, however, an officer continues to draw the salary of the office formerly held by him while undergoing a course of training, the levy will be payable on the salary so drawn.
11. (1) Paying officers will deduct the levy when making the periodical payments of salary.
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(2) The levy on salaries payable from general revenue or loan funds will be credited to a new sub-head of revenue Temporary levy on the salaries of public servants "under Head & Miscellaneous. The levy on salaries paid from the revenue of the Ceylon Government Railway or the revenue of the Colombo Electricity Supply will be credited to their respective revenues under a new sub-head “* Temporary levy on the salaries of public servants."
(3) Public servants will not be required to give receipts in respect of the amounts levied.
Explanatory notes:-It is necessary to abrogate the ordinary accounting requirement that all payments from Personal Emoluments should be covered by a full discharge from the officers receiving payment. The levy on the salaries of public servants is not, as in the case of enforced contributions to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund or Scheme, a levy in respect of which they receive a prospective benefit and receipts from the unreduced salaries cannot properly be demanded.
12. The scheme of temporary levies outlined in this order does not affect except in the definite way indicated, the operation of the existing schemes of salaries and wages under which increments should be granted, promotions made, and all other operations effected according to the regulations relating to such matters.
Explanatory notes:-This is merely the necessary affirmation of the principle that the present scheme of salaries will continue in full operation subject only to the effect of the levy. It also serves the purpose of emphasizing the unaltered character of the present scheme.
13. If any doubt shall arise as to the application of these regulations to particular cases, such cases should be referred to the Treasury (Establishments Division) for instructions.
C. 92994/32 [No. 6].
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No. 15.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
Sent I p.m., 9th February, 1932.)
TELEGRAM.
No. 35. SECRET. Your telegram No. 23, 29th January. I you propose.-Cunliffe-LISTER.
approve action
(4) Public Service Inquiry-Retrenchment Commission.
C. 93049/32 [No. 1].
SIR,
(No. 152.)
No. 16.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 11th April, 1932.)
Ceylon, 22nd March, 1932.
I HAVE the honour to inform you that in accordance with a resolution passed by the State Council on Wednesday, 24th February, 1932, I have appointed a Com- mission consisting of Mr. R. L. Pereira, K.C., Mr. E. R. Tambimutto, and Colonel T. G. Jayewardene, V.D., with terms of reference recommended by the Council, namely:
"To investigate and make recommendations forthwith in regard to-
(a) the salaries, allowances, and general conditions of service of—
(i) existing members of the Public Service, and (ii) future entrants;
(b) the cadre of Departments;
with a view to reduction of the expenditure of the Island, and with a view to the fixing of salaries on a rupee basis and in accordance with the Ceylon standard.”
I enclose in this connexion a copy of the Minutes† of the State Council in para- graph 4 of which the decision of the Council is recorded.
2. The proposal to appoint a Commission originated with the Board of Ministers and a resolution substantially in the above form was in fact introduced by the Leader of the House who in the course of discussion informed the Council that in the Board's opinion the Commission should consist of one member from England, one Ceylonese unofficial, and one member of the Public Services of Ceylon. As will be seen from the above minutes Council disagreed with the Board's view that the services of an expert from England should be obtained and further opposed the appointment of any 'member of the Public Services of Ceylon or of the State Council.
3. The views of the Council as to the personnel of the Commission were sub- sequently considered by the Board of Ministers, and it became evident to the Board that the exclusion from the Commission of an expert from abroad and of members of the State Council and the Public Service made it extremely difficult if not impossible to find among the unofficial public of Ceylon a sufficient number of suitable persons to be recommended to me for appointment. In these circumstances the Board decided to ask the State Council to reconsider its recommendation that the services of an expert from abroad should not be sought, and on the 9th of March the Leader of the House moved the following motion :-
"that in view of the difficulty in finding in Ceylon a suitable person who is willing to devote his time to the duties of Chairman of the Commission on Salaries and Cadres which His Excellency the Governor has been asked to appoint this Council
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