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eligibility for housing and charges for medical and dental treatment and the effective date of any alteration in these conditions of service.

(2) Matters which are specifically not referable to a Committee of Inquiry are salaries and other benefits of Scale 1 Minor Staff and Police Rank and File, pensions and retirement allowance which are governed by Ordinance, the grant or refusal of pensionable status, numbers or complements of staff, actual times of attendance of staff, disciplinary questions, and matters concerning individual officers and individual gradea.

(3) The salaries, allowances, hours of work, and leave of superscale officers will not be referred to a Committee of Inquiry; but this restriction shall not operate in any way to the detriment of propor consideration of any issues concerning lower salary scales either in deliberations of the Council or by any Committee of Inquiry.

8.

The Terms of Reference of a Committee of Inquiry will, if possible, be agreed between the Chairman of the Council and the leader or leaders of 'i the staff side at a meeting of the Senior Civil Service Council. In the event of inability to agree, the Government will put forward one version which, together with the Staff Associations' version or versions, will together constitute the Terms of Reference; provided that a Committee will not be entitled to consider issues beyond the scope of Clauses 6 and 7.

9. (1) A Committee of Inquiry will consist of a Chairman and two Members appointed by the Governor.

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(2)

The Associations will have the right:-

(a) to offer suggestions for a Chairman, and to express

an opinion on the acceptability of a Chairman proposed by the Governor;

(b) to propose one Member of the Committee for the Governor's

consideration and to make representations to the

Governor should it be intended not to accept the person proposed, and in this latter event to make further proposals;

(c) to express an opinion on the acceptability of the third

Member who will be nominated by the Governor.

(3) A person who has a direct personal interest in the subject matter of the Inquiry, separate from his interest as a member of the public at large, will not be appointed as the Chairman or as a Member of a Committee of Inquiry.

(4) The Secretary and secretarial staff to the Committee will be provided by Government, which will also meet any other expenses necessarily incurred by the Committee, subject to the proviso contained in sub-clause 9(6) below.

(5) In the event that the Associations cannot agree on a Member to be proposed by them, the Governor will accept for first consideration the person nominated by any two of them.

(6) In the event that the Associations desire to propose a Member from overseas who is otherwise acceptable to the Governor, the Associations shall bear the cost of his passages to and from the Colony, and his Accommodation therein, unless the Government agrees that an overseas Member ie dosirable and accepts these charges.

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