CO129-535-6 Leave and passage regulations 2-6-1931 - 30-3-1932 — Page 7

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These new regulations are clear, and

in some respects an improvement on the existing

regulations. One has naturally had in mind the

provisions of the draft scheme for the

Unification of the Colonial Administrative Service

in going through them, and it would be well if it

were possible to delay any decision on their

introduction as new Leave and Passage Regulations

for which existing officers may opt and which

will be applied to new officers, until the

forthcoming Circular goes out with the Colonial

Administrative Service Scheme.

The C.A.S. Scheme treats the period of

leave as being exclusive of the journey to and

from the Colony, and on that basis stipulates a

minimum ratio of 4 days' leave for each month

of service.

These Hong Kong Regulations maintain

the existing Hong Kong system of including the

period of the voyage in the period of leave

on that trusis

(see paragraph 4), and they fall short (see

paragraph 11 (1)) of the minimum stipulated in

the C.A. S. Scheme.

The limitation (see paragraph 11 (2))

to five months of the period of leave which can be

taken on retirement is in accordance with the

general principles of the leave system in the

Eastern Colonies, but it does not accord with the

principles of the C.A. S. Scheme, which would make

no part of the leave dependent on the officer's

returning for further service, but would allow

him on retirement the full amount earned by his

last tour of resident service.

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