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full-pay leave. As of grace an allowance might occasionally be granted.
5.
A non-duty-pay officer acting in a duty-
-pay appointment would frequently be a dollar-officer and as such would draw half the dollar-pay of the appointment; should there be no dollar-pay, (as may happen in the case of a new appointment) one would be fixed by me for the occasion. Should a non-duty-pay officer with a sterling salary act for a duty- -pay officer, he should, I think, draw not only half the salary but also half the duty-pay. It appears to me that duty-pay has been added to the emoluments of certain appointments because they were thought to be inadequate, and if that is so it follows that an acting officer should receive the benefit of the increase provided that he has not as a dollar-officer got other valuable and incompatible privileges.
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7.
A duty-pay officer acting in a non-duty- -pay appointment should, I think, draw in it half his duty-pay
as well as half his own salary. The fact that the appointment in which he acts is presumably adequately paid without duty- -pay should not deprive him of a portion of the emoluments of
his own appointment which is admittedly underpaid without it.
Generally, I request your authority in dealing with questions of leave and duty-pay to act upon the
assumption that the only distinction between an officer's
salary and his duty-pay is that during his absences on full-pay: leave the whole of the latter reverts to Government (but may under exceptional circumstances be granted in whole or in part to the acting officer ) and that during his half-pay leave the
half of it so reverts.
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I am of opinion that that portion of my
own emoluments which you have recently directed to be called
'duty allowance' differs essentially from the duty-pay now
given to the Cadet Service and recommended for the Public Works
Department in that it is in reality an allowance for carrying
out certain defined duties and I think that the rules proposed
should
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