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(c.) Where the annual emoluments of any civil employment held by any person entitled to half pay exceed three times the amount of such highest rate of half pay as aforesaid, but fall short of four times such amount, the holder of such employment may, with Her Majesty's pleasure, signified in the manner aforesaid, receive so much half pay as, added to the emoluments of his civil employment, will together make up four times the amount of such half pay:
(d.) Where the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are of opinion that the employment of military officers in the Colonies or elsewhere in civil situations of responsibility with small emoluments will be conducive to economy, and thereby beneficial to the public service, the said Commissioners may authorise the receipt of half pay by military officers notwithstanding their employment in a civil situation:
(5.) In every case the officer authorised to receive half pay with the salary or emolu- ment o. any military or civil employment shall specify in his declaration by this Act required the other military or civil employment which he may hold:
(6.) An account shall be laid before Parliament in every year with the Army estimates of the number of officers who are allowed to receive half pay with civil employment, specifying the names of such officers, with the respective amounts of their half pay, and their emoluments, and distinguishing in every such account the officers to whom such half pay has been allowed subsequent to the last
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APPENDIX V.
EXTRACTS to illustrate the Meaning of the Term "CIVIL SITUATION." Appropriation Act, 1870, sec. 6.
6. The following regulations shall be observed with respect to the application of any sum granted by this Act, or by any Act that may hereafter be passed for the half of officers of Her Majesty's forces; that is to say,
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(3.) No person shall receive any part of any sum granted for half for any time during which he holds any other military employment of profit under Her Majesty, or in Her Majesty's Colonies or possessions beyond the seas, except the holders of any staff or garrison appointments, or appointments in the militia, yeomanry, volunteers, or other reserve forces of Her Majesty, who may, with Her Majesty's approbation, &c.
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4. No person shall receive any part of any sum granted for half for
pay during which he holds any civil employment of profit under Her Majesty, or in Her time Majesty's Colonies or possessions beyond the seas, except as hereafter mentioned, that is to say, &c., &c.
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Royal Warrant, 1st May 1878.
"Civil situation" shall be held to mean any civil employment of profit at home or abroad, in or under a Civil Department of the State, or under any Commissioners appointed under Our Royal Sign Manual or by Our Letters Patent.
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Royal Warrant, 25th June 1881.
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"Civil situation" shall be held to mean any employment of profit, at home or abroad,
in or under a Civil Department of the State, or under any Commissioners appointed under Our Royal Sign Manual or by Our Letters Patent, or under the Government of one of Our Colonies.
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Royal Warrant, 10th June 1884.
"Civil situation" shall be held to mean any employment of profit at home or abroad, under a Department of the State not subject to the Secretary of State for War, except service with the Army in India.
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APPENDIX VI.
EXTRACTS from APPROPRIATION ACT, 1963.
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25. And as to the sum of three hundred twenty-eight thousand six hundred and ninety- Rules to he six pounds, being the proportion of the sum of four hundred sixty-four thousand eight observed hundred and ninety-five pounds by this Act appropriated to the pay of reduced and in the appli- Retired Officers, which is applicable to the half pay of officers of Her Majesty's Forces, sum appro- it is hereby enacted and declared, that the rules hereafter prescribed shall be duly priating observed in the application of the said half pay; (that is to say,) that no person shall balf pay. have or receive any part of the same without making and subscribing a declaration to such purport and effect as shall be required in that behalf; that no person shall have or receive any part of the same who was under the age of sixteen years at the time when the regiment, troop, or company in which he served was reduced; that no person shall have or receive any part of the same who did not do actual service in some regiment, battalion, troop, or company in Her Majesty's service, except in cases in which the com- mission was received under circumstances which did not, according to the regulations of the army, require the officer to serve; that no person shall have or receive any part of the same who has resigned his commission, and has had no commission since; that no part of the same shall be allowed to any person by virtue of any warrant or appointment, except to such person as would have been otherwise entitled thereto as a reduced officer; that no person shall have or receive any part of the same for any time during which he shall hold any other military place or employment of profit under Her Majesty, or in Her Majesty's Colonies or Possessions beyond the seas, except on the staff or in garrison, and that in such excepted cases, or in cases of his holding any military place or employment of profit under another Goverment, no officer shall receive any part of his half unless with Her Majesty's approbation, to be signified by the Secretary of
pay State for War to the Paymaster-General, and the officer claiming the half pay in pursuance of such approbation shall specify in his declaration the other military place or employment of profit on the staff or in garrison which he may hold or have held under Her Majesty, or in the Colonies or Possessions of Her Majesty beyond the seas, or under any other Government; that no person who shall, on or before the twenty-eighth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, have held any civil place or employ- ment of profit under Her Majesty, or in the Colonies or Possessions of Her Majesty beyond the seas, or under any other Government, shall have or receive any part of the same for any time during which he shall hold any such civil place or employment of profit under Her Majesty, or in the Colonics or Possessions of Her Majesty beyond the seas, or under any other Government, except in cases in which the same shall not exceed three times the amount of the highest rate of half pay attached to the rank in virtue of which he claims to receive half pay or as herein-after mentioned, nor in any such excepted cases unless Her Majesty's special approbation be signified as aforesaid, and the officer claiming the half pay in pursuance of such approbation shall signify in his declara- tion the civil place or employment of profit which he may hold or have held as aforesaid; but if the net annual emoluments of such civil place or employment shall exceed three times the amount of half pay as aforesaid, and shall fall short of four times that amount, then it shall be lawful for the Paymaster-General, with Her Majesty's approbation, signified by the Secretary of State for War as aforesaid, to issue, on or before the twenty-fourth day of December one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, so much of the half pay claimed by any such officer as shall, together with the net annual emolu- ments of the civil place or employment, be equal to four times the amount of such half pay, and the officer claiming the half pay in pursuance of such approbation shall specify in his declaration the civil place or employment of profit which he may have held as aforesaid, and the actual amount of the emoluments thereof, in such manner and form, and calculated up to such period or periods, as shall be required by the Secretary of State for War; but no person who, after the twenty-eighth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, has been appointed to any civil place or employment of profit (except in Her Majesty's Household) under Her Majesty, or in the Colonies or
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