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8. "Any $797.
8. The Special Regulations made by the Secretary of State from time to time for the services listed in the Schedule will be cancelled with effect from the 1st October, 1954.
SCHEDULE
Colonial Administrative Service.
Colonial Agricultural Service.
Colonial Audit Service.
Colonial Chemical Service.
Colonial Civil Aviation Service,
Colonial Customs Service.
Colonial Education Service.
Colonial Engineering Service.
Colonial Forest Service.
Colonial Geological Survey Service.
Colonial Legal Service.
Colonial Medical Service.
Colonial Mines Service.
Colonial Police Service.
Colonial Postal Service.
Colonial Prisons Service. Colonial Research Service.
Colonial Survey Service.
Colonial Veterinary Service.
Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service.
APPENDIX B
THE PRACTICABILITY OF AN OVERSEAS SERVICE BASED ON THE UNITED KINGDOM
AND EMPLOYED BY HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
1. There are some 14,000 pensionable members of H.M. Overseas Civil Service of whom about 7,000 serve in East Africa and 2,200 in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. In addition about 6,500 overseas officers serve on contract, of whom there are over 2,000 in East Africa and nearly as many in Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
2. A reduced number of openings in overseas territories still occur, but vacancies are mainly in the basic grades and the opportunities for a continuing career overseas have inevitably diminished as more territories have attained self government.
3. The other opportunities for service under the Crown when the career of officers in H.M. Overseas Civil Service comes to an end are such suitable vacancies as there may be from time to time in the Home Civil Service and the F Service, and on assignment under Technical Assistance Agreements and similar arrangements to independent countries both Commonwealth and
Toreign.
4. The bulk of the Home Civil Service offers no answer to the problem since it consists of specialised Departments such as the Post Office and the large industrial establishments of the Service Departments and the Ministry of Aviation. On the other side there are many branches of H.M. Overseas Civil Service which have no parallel in the Home Service since H.M. Government do not, for example, directly employ any significant number of teachers, doctors, or tropical
agriculturalists. Over the last few years the Home Civil Service has contracted. The total size of the Administrative Branch of the Home Civil Service, including that of the Commonwealth Relations Office both at home and abroad, is under 2,500 (the total administrative staff of the Commonwealth Relations Office is about 170).* This compares with about 2,300 pensionable administrative officers in H.M. Overseas Civil Service of whom over 400 are serving in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The Home Departments are necessarily about up to establishment and require only a comparatively small annual intake to keep them so. The creation of a U.K.-based Service on an establishment common with the Home Civil Service would thus provide no fresh openings for H.M. Overseas Civil Service.
5. There are about 750 officers in the senior branch of the Foreign Service: The Foreign Service similarly is about up to establishment and, while it is open to overseas officers to compete for entry to the Foreign Service by arrangements similar to those for the Home Civil Service, it is apparent from the numbers involved that the Foreign Office cannot offer a significant outlet for H.M. Overseas Civil Service.
6. The total number of technical assistance appointments made by H.M. Government from all sources last year was about 200, of which many required skills and knowledge which members of H.M. Overseas Civil Service may not possess. The number and range of posts under Technical Assistance Agreements may well increase and the number of posts for which members of H.M. Overseas Civil Service are suitable may increase at least proportionately, but it is unlikely ever to be a significant total by comparison with the size of H.M. Overseas Civil Service.
7. The creation of a U.K.-based Service would not therefore solve the problem of the future prospects of members of H.M. Overseas Civil Service. It would create no further openings and no jobs would become available for the members of H.M. Overseas Civil Service for which they are not, by one means or another, already eligible. In these circumstances the creation of a U.K.-based Service as an alternative to the proposals in this Paper would have conveyed a false impression of security of employment; and for H.M. Govern- ment to have published any scheme on these lines which could give credence to that false impression would have been open to the gravest criticism. The recent proposal by the Select Committee on Estimates for a study of a possible Commonwealth Advisory and Technical Service which (as noted at paragraph 7 of this Paper) is at present under consideration by H.M. Government is for a separate Service, on a much more modest scale than the Overseas Civil Service, to be created to meet a special problem.
APPENDIX C
ENTRY INTO THE HOME CIVIL SERVICE AND FOREIGN SERVICE
Age Concessions
1. Regulations have been made governing certain competitions for appoint- ments in the Home Civil Service and Foreign Service which provide that candidates who have served on regular engagements in Her Majesty's Forces may deduct any period of such service from their actual age in determining their eligibility to compete. A similar concession has been made in respect of permanent and pensionable overseas officers who have been enrolled, or are eligible to be enrolled, in the list of members of H.M. Overseas Civil Service maintained by the Colonial Office, whereby their period of service may be deducted from their actual age.
*Since 1956 Ghana, the Federation of Malaya, Cyprus and Nigeria have attained in- dependence and the C.R.O. has become responsible for the relations of H.M. Government with them. During this period the administrative establishment of the C.R.O. has increased from 136 to 172. In the same period the C.R.O. has taken on 26 administrative officers and 19 information officers from the Overseas Civil Service in established or temporary appointments. 19
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