CO129-577-9 Badan Singh- petitions that he should be considered for promotion 2-11-1939 - 9-1-1940 — Page 6

petitioner may be informed that the Secretary of State

understands that he will be given full consideration,

if the reports on his work justify that course, for

a vacancy in the Higher Class of the Junior Clerical

Service which is expected to occur early next year. (This point is worth making as the petitioner states

in paragraph 9 that no such vacancy he likely to

occur for years).

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Paragraph 6 of Sir A. Russell's pamphlet

(1936 Edition), to which Mr.Lloyd refers, was

rewritten by him in its present form after he had

fully discussed the matters dealt with therein with Sir G. Bushe and also with me, and after he had been supplied with copies of recent Colonial Office despatches representing current practice and views. Part of the paragraph on page 4, for

example, is taken from a certain despatch which we sent to Ceylon.

In this paragraph 6 there are, of course, two distinct points, viz: (1) the question whether, when the Attorney General considers that there is sufficient evidence to justify the institution of criminal proceedings against an

officer, such proceedings, or alternatively

disciplinary proceedings under Colonial Regulations, should be taken, and (2) the institution of

disciplinary proceedings under Colonial Regulations for misconduct (i.e. not amounting to a criminal offence) when the Attorney General considers

that there is not sufficient evidence to justify

the