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CEYLON GOVT. GAZETTE
Appointments
in the Public Service.
Regulations.
Interference with Public Service Commission.
Retirement on pension of persons holding office at the commencement of this Order.
Preservation of Pensions, &c.
EXTRAORDINARY
MAY 17, 1946
60. (1) The appointment, transfer, dismissal and disciplina control of public officers is hereby vested in the Governor acting on the recommendation of the Public Service Commission :
Provided that appointments and transfers to the office of Attorney-General shall be made by the Governor acting in his discretion.
(2) In subsection (1) of this Section the expression "transfer " means a transfer involving an increase of salary.
61.—(1) The Governor, acting on the recommendation of the Public Service Commission, may make regulations for all or any of the following matters :-
(a) the exercise by the Commission of any of their functions; (b) the delegation to the Commission, or to any public officer acting with or without the recommendation of the Com- mission, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the regulations, of any of the powers vested in the Governor by subsection (1) of Section 60 of this Order.
(2) In the exercise of his powers under subsection (1) of this Section the Governor shall not delegate to any public officer the power to appoint to any public office which carries an initial salary of more than three thousand two hundred rupees.
62. The provisions of Section 56 of this Order shall apply in relation to the Public Service Commission as though the reference therein to the Judicial Service Commission were a reference to the Public Service Commission and the reference to judicial office were a reference to public office.
63.—(1) Any officer in the public service (not being an officer appointed on agreement for a specified period) who is holding office on the day immediately preceding the date on which this Part of this Order comes into operation and who was appointed or selected for appointment prior to the ninth day of October, 1945, to any office, appointment to which was subject to the approval of a Secretary of State, may, subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this Section, retire from the public service, and on such retirement may be granted a pension or gratuity in accordance with and subject to the provisions of Article 88 of the Ceylon (State Council) Order in Council, 1931, and the regulations made thereunder, notwith- standing the revocation of that Order by Section 91 of this Order; and those provisions shall apply accordingly subject to any Proclama- tion made under Section 88 of this Order.
(2) The right given by subsection (1) of this Section to an officer in the public service to retire may be exercised—
(a) in the case of an officer appointed or selected for appointment prior to the seventeenth day of July, 1928, at any time. after this Part of this Order comes into operation;
(b) in the case of an officer appointed or selected for appointment on or after the seventeenth day of July, 1928, but prior to the ninth day of October, 1945, at any time within two years after the date of the first meeting of the House of Representatives.
64.-(1) All pensions, gratuities, or other like allowances which have been, or which may be, granted to any persons who have been, and have ceased to be, in the service of the Crown in respect of the Government of the Island at any time before the date on which this Part of this Order comes into operation, or to the widows,
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