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the Civil Service. We therefore recommend that the existing arrangement

whereby only ex-officio members of Executive Council and the Chief Justice

are provided with official cars for personal use should continue. We also

consider it correct that officers at the level of point D9 should have

the use of an official car for personal use provided a car is available;

and that officers at the level of points D6 to D8, who are in the Heads

of Departments and Posts of Equivalent Status category of the Civil &

Miscellaneous Lists, or at the second tier in a Group 1 department (sce

paragraph 13 above), should have free use of an official car to attend

any function in or outside office hours when the invitation arises from

their official position, and for home to office journeys, again provided a

car is available.

34.

We appreciate that this recommendation does not meet the wishes

of some officers, but we think it fundamental that cars be provided in

the Civil Service only where there is a proven departmental need and not,

cxcept for the ex-officio members of Executive Council, on personal grounds.

In particular we have considered the position of officers at the D9 lovel

and their official requirements for personal transport; and we consider

that the present arrangements are proper, although there seems to be a

case for the provision of a pool of three cars for the Judiciary, to

provide ready transport for Judges travelling from their Courts in

matters connected with court cases.

b) Eligibility for 1st class air passages

35.

Many heads of departments made representations on the subject

of air travel, mainly to the effect that Government should make greater

use of 1st class facilities. The evidence from the private sector is that

relatively few employees have this privilege. We thereforo recommend that

or above

only officers at the level of point D9 above should travel 1st class

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en leave, but that officers at or above the level of point D6 who are in

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