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that no officer should receive less basic pay than he receives at present when it is taken into consideration that the new basic incorporates elements for rent, depreciation in the value of money, and in some instances other allowances.

(iii) Rules (i) and (ii) should apply also in

cases where the new scale is slightly shorter than the present scale, provided of course that the maximum of the now scale cannot be exceeded.

(iv) Whore an officer is on the maximum salary

of an incremental scale and is transferred to an incremental scale which has more incremental steps than his existing scale, he may, if duly qualified, receive one increment in the new scale for each year which he has spent on the maximum of his previous scale, subject of course to the maximum of the new scale.

(v) An officer on a fixed basic salary shall

transfer to a corresponding fixed basic salary if such a fixed basic salary has been assigned to his post under the new scheme but where an incremental scale has becn provided, he shall be given one increment on the new scale for every year he has served on his previous fixed salary.

(vi) In all the above cases expatriation pay

should be added in the event that the officer concerned qualifies therefor, but in the application of Rule (ii) it should be remembered that previous salaries have, in effect, included an element of expatriation

(vii)

(viii)

.pay.

All officers should keep their existing incremental dates until they vary on promotion.

Notwithstanding the above rules, the Government should have the right to deal as it thinks fit with any individual case which might, if the above rules were applied, give rise to an anomaly.

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In certain cases where we have proposed complete reorganisation or a radical regrading or where officers have been placed in a grade to which hitherto promotions have been made to fill vacancies but which in the new scheme is included in a time scale, or where an old scale has been drastically shortened or lengthened, the rules suggested above may not be appropriate. We have, for example, prepared tentative drafts of a special conversion scheme for the Clerical Service and another for the Police Inspectorate. It is probable that similar schemes will have to be devised to ensure equitable treatment where some officers as in the Public Works Department are in the middle or towards the end of a long scale and others are at the beginning of a shorter scale introduced since 1937. A special scheme will have to be drawn up for certain officers in the Education Department at present on a long time scale who will have to transfer

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