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and public officers, connected with the employment

or non-employment of such public officer or public

officers, or the terms of employment or with the

conditions of or affecting employment, of any

public officer;

"usual duties", in relation to a public officer, includes

the usual duties of the office which he is holding

and also includes any other duties which the

Government may from time to time call upon him to

perform.

Stoppage of pay for

unauthorized absence

from work, etc.

3. (1) If any public officer, without any

reasonable excuse, for any period

(a) is absent from his place of work; or

(b) refuses or omits to perform all or any of

his usual duties while attending his place.

of work; or

(c) engages in irregular industrial action short

of a strike,

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the Secretary for the Civil Service may authorize the

deduction from his salary, wages or allowances for the

month in which the absence, refusal, omission or

irregular industrial action occurs or for any subsequent

month, such an amount as he may consider appropriate

in the circumstances.

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