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Orig. in P/Misc. 5.
CIRCULAR 1o. 23.
Colonial,Secretary's Office,
Hong Kong, 7th May, 1920
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1.
Regulatione in connection with the revision of salaries.
The new rates of salaries are payable as from the lat Jammary, 1920, from which date duty pay, separation allowance, and temporary precentage on salary cease.
2.
Sterling salaries are payable at exchange 2/- to the dollar, subject to the provisions of General Order 121; with the exception that paragraph (2) of that order must be read as though the words in China or Japan" appeared in place of the words" in a country having a silver standard or in Asia": provided that an officer proceeding on vacation leave to China or Japan must obtain the permission of the Government, prior to his departure, to draw his salary at exchange 2/-,
3. It is the intention that the new salaries shall as a general rule include the allowances of various kinds which are now paid to certain officers for particular duties: though in special circumstances these allowances may be continued in whole or in part. shduld forward to the Colonial Secretary's Office a schedule showing any allowance paid to any officer affected by the new scale of salaries, to- Heads of Departments gether with his recommendation as to action which should be taken with regard to such allowance.
The rules as to acting appointments are modified, to the effect that an officer acting for a superior officer who is on leave shall re- ceive the salary due to an acting officer under the existing regulations from the date of assuming the duties of the acting appointment.
5. Officers not entitled to free quarters, who occupy quarters supplied by the Government, will pay rent for such quarters at the rate of 6% upon salary, with effect from the 1st January, 1920. regulations regarding rent and house allowances remain otherwise in The existing force for the time being: but officers accepting the new azale of salary will be required to conform do such arrangements as may hereafter be made, irrespective of any special rights of which they may be possessed at the present time.
6. An officer shall count all his past services in a grade for pur- poses of increments of salary in such grade,
7. Deductions on account of the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund shall be made according to existing arrangement, whereunder an officer is credited with his full salary expressed in dollars then he is in the Colony and in sterling when he is on leave, and he is debited with the sterling amount of his contribution expressed in dollars at the rate of exchange of the month or expressed in sterling according as he is in the Colony or on leave.
8.
Paysheets should be sent forthwith to the Treasury, showing the adjustments required for the months January to April inclusive. Credit side the officer receives his new rate of salary less the dif-
On the ference between the Widows' and Orphans' contribution calculated upon such salary and Widows' and Orphans' contribution already paid: and he should be debited with the salary already paid: the term"salary" to include duty, pay, acting pay, special allowance of 20%, separation allowance andauch special allowances of a permanent nature as are re- ferred to in paragraph 3 of this circular.
9. In the case of officers who are absent on leave full particulars of the adjustments should be forwarded to the Colonial Secretary's Office 10.
The se regulations are of general application except in so far as they may be specifically modified by instructions issued separately to departmente,
(sd) A.G.M. Fletcher.
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Colonial Secretary.
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