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iv).

v).

vi).

All new appointments as above should be made on the proper basis (which in some cases may need review after the officer has been in post for six months);

We should seize every opportunity to regu- larise the position of officers already appointed in Dependent Territories when their allowances are reviewed whether at their request, on cost-of-living/exchange rate grounds, or on Inspections (i.e. at PSD request). But given that many of the existing appointees in good faith were offered and accepted, based on equation with officers within the "normal" allowance structure, the individuals concerned should be allowed to continue on the same basis of equation for the duration of the existing appointment, if this is more beneficial than frais;

(NB: If an officer now a Governor succeeded

himself as High Commissioner, this would be a new appointment.)

On a review at the officer's request, in applying rule (v), PSD will compare the officer's "existing" total Post allowances with the "new" frais and if the latter are more beneficial, frais will there- after be paid. When the review arises otherwise, a set of "revised" Post allowances will also have come into being. The "new" frais will be paid if more beneficial than the total "revised" allowances.

18 September, 1979

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C W M Wilson

Overseas Allowances Section Personnel Services Dept