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Punishment.

Fines for minor offences committed by officers remunerated from the MOD

1 Pay Scale.

Absence without leave; liability to dismissal.

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7.(1) The Secretary for the Civil Service may impose any punishment (as defined in Colonial Regulation 54(3) on any officer to whom this Regulation applies whose substantive salary is on or above point" on the Master Pay Scale or the nearest point thereto on any other salary scale.

(2) The Head of Department of an officer to whom this Regulation applies whose substantive salary is below

1418 point' on the Master Pay Scale or the nearest point thereto on any other salary scale may impose any punishment (as defined in Colonial Regulation 54(3)) on any such officer.

(3) The powers conferred on a Head of Department in paragraph (2) shall not be delegated save with the approval of the Secretary for the Civil Service.

(4) In this Regulation Head of Department means Head of Grade in the case of an officer who is a member of a general grade.

8.(1) In addition to the powers conferred by regulation 7, a Head of Department may summarily impose fines, for the following minor offences, on officers remunerated from the MOD 1 Pay Scale :

Offence

Unpunctuality

Absence without reasonable

excuse

Other minor offences

Maximum fine

Half-a-day's salary

An amount equivalent to the salary normally due for the time of absence, not exceeding a total equivalent to two days' salary at any one time

Half-day's salary

(2) If the amount of the fine imposed on the officer is not settled within 1 month from the date upon which a demand note for the amount is issued, the Head of Department may authorise its deduction from the officer's salary or from any other sums due by the Government to him or his estate.

(3) A Head of Department may delegate the powers conferred by paragraphs (1) and (2) to such officers as may be approved by the Secretary for the Civil Service.

9.(1) If an officer to whom this Regulation applies :

(a)

is absent from duty without reasonable

cause;

(b) wilfully refuses to perform his duty; or

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(c) wilfully omits to perform his duty;

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