CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938 — Page 113

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REDRAFT OF GENERAL ORDER 117

QUARTERS, RENT AND RENT ALLOWANCES.

C.

117.

(1) Application and interpretation.

This

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Order applies only to officers on sterling salaries, and

in it, unless the contrary appears

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(a) "officer means a male officer personally resident in the Colony, and does not include a dependent; and leave, whether spent in the Colony or not, shall count as residence only if it is short leave not exceeding 42

days, or sick leave.

(b) "dependents" means dependents in the Colony, namely the wife, sons under 18 years of age and unmarried

daughters, or any of them, of a married officer, who reside with him, or whom he is liable to maintain; and a dependent shall be deemed to be in the Colony unless he absents

himself therefrom for two months or more at a time;

(c) "salary" means the annual value, in sterling, of an officer's pay for the time being (including acting pay, but no allowances) or the equivalent of such salary in dollars at the Treasury rate;

(d) tenement" means a dwelling-house or self-

contained flat;

(e) "quarters" means a tenement owned or rented

by the Government;

(f) "rent" means monthly rent or, in relation to

a tenement owned and occupied by an officer, a sum fixed

by the Assessor; and rent includes rates paid by an officer;

(g) "rent for quarters" means the rent payable

by any officer in accordance with paragraph (5);

(h) rent allowance means the allowance payable

to any officer in accordance with paragraph (6).