CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10] — Page 210

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No

342.

Sir,

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Rece Prot 25 OCT

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 28th. September, 1911.

I have the honour to request your

instructions as to the acting-pay to be drawn by duty-pay officers and by other officers when acting in duty-pay appoint-

-ments.

2.

It appears to me that the duty-pay now

drawn by certain officers is in no sense a charge allowance

given in consideration of the performance of definite duties,

but is merely unpensionable salary and should be treated

accordingly in the calculation of acting-pay.

3.

If this view is accepted, a duty-pay

officer acting in another duty-pay appointment should draw half

the initial salaries of both appointments, all his own incre-

-ments and half the duty-pays of both appointments.

4.

Similarly a duty-pay officer who is

required to perform the duties of another duty-pay office as

well as his own, would under Colonial Office Regulation 77 be eligible to receive a maximum of half the duty-pay and half the salary of the other appointment. If the additional duties to be performed belonged to a non-duty-pay appointment no salary

would of course be available during the full-pay leave of the absent officer, and I can suggest no good reason therefore why any part of the duty-pay of an absent duty-pay officer should be claimable as of right by a duty-pay officer or any other officer who is carrying on the absentee's duties during his

full-pay

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

&C.,

80.

&c...

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