THE PUBLIC SERVICE

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1914, Page 7

THE PUBLIC SERVICE

SOME ADDITIONAL REGULA-

TIONS.

In a Gazette supplement issued this week are published additional regulations made by the Public Service Commissioner under the Act of 1912. .

One of the new provisions is: "If an officer holds or is appointed to or

elected to any office not forbidden by this regulation, and the Commissioner is of opinion that the dxities of such office interfere with the due and proper discharge of his duty as an officer of the public service, the Commission er may call on him to resign such outside office." ■ Another new regulation is: "Whenever it is found that an officer is not giving satisfaction in the x?erfor:nance of his duty .or otherwise, he shall be informed in writing of the fact and in the direction in which he is failing. In the annual report .... the permanent head shall mention the instances in which such notification has been > given, and state what the effect has-I'been."

Two provisions of importance are: "By passing the senior examination, including the subjects required of professional officers in any department, an officer of the general or clerical divisiom may qualify for promotion to the professional division of such department." "The Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, from time to time transfer from the general division to the eighth or seventh class of the clerical division any person who has served for at legist two. years in the general division and who has passed the examination prescribed for candidates lor appointment to the clerical division. Every. person so transferred shall, so far as seniority for promotion is concerned, be placed at the bottom of the class to which he is transferred, but he shall be entitled to not less than the same salary as that which he received immediately before such transfer."

_ The sc<.ipe of the entrance examination is set out in full.

A set of new regulations applying to .workmen employed by the' Public Works Department is also gazeted.