COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 705, 26 August 1870, Page 4

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE.

{From the London Gazette, June 7.) At the Court at Balmoral, the 4th day of June, 1870, present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas, it is expedient to continue, with certain amendments, the existing provision for testing according to fixed rules the qualifications of persons who may, from time to time, be proposed to be appointed, either "permanently or temporarily, to any situation or employment in any of Her Majesty's Civil Establishments, except as hereinafter mentioned:-" I. Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that the , Bight Hon. Sir Edward Ryan now First Commissioner under Her Majesty's Orders in Council of the 21st of May, 1855, and the 26th of April, 1862, and George Webbe Dasent, Esq., Doctor of Civil Law, or such other persons as Her Majesty may from time to time approve in the stead of them, or either of them, shall be her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners for testing the qualifications of the persons so proposed to be „ appointed to any situation or employment in the Civil Establishments as aforesaid, and shall hold their offices during the pleasure of Her Majesty; the said Sir Edward Ryan continuing to be the First Commissioner, and the said George Webbe Dasent being the Second Commissioner; and shall have power, _ subject to the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to appoint from time to time such assistant examiners and others as may be required to assist them in the . performance of the duties hereinafter assigned to them. 11. And it is hereby ordered that (except . as may be exeepted under clause VII. of this .. order, and in the Schedule marked B an- ", nexed hereto) the qualifications of all such persons as may be proposed to be appointed, '' either permanently or temporarily, to any , ' situation or employment in any department v of the Civil Service shall, before they are employed, be tested by or under the direction of the ~ said Commissioners ; and no person (except ~°as aforesaid) shall be employed in any department of the Civil Service until he ahull have been reported by the said Commissioners to be qualified to be admitted on probation to such situation or employment. ■ 111. No person shall be 'appointed to any office or employment in any of Her Majesty's Civil Establishments until he shall be reported by the said Commissioners to have satisfied them : — ..., istrThat he is within the limits of ag.'. 1 prescribed for the situation or employment to which he desires to be admitted. 2nd. That he is free from any physical „.d efect or disease which would he likely to . interfere with the proper discharge of his 'duties. '■'•' 3rd. That his character is such as to '•qualify him for such situation or employment; and, ' 4tb. That he possesses the requisite knowledge and ability to enter on the discharge of his official duties. • V IV. The rules applicable to each depart- '< ment, under each of the above heads, shall be settled, subject to the approval of the ComR .mUßioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by the , iaid , Civil Service Commissioners and the {^chlef authorities of the department, jroyi Except as hereinafter is exoepted, all nt appointments which it may be necessary to make, after the 31st day of August next, to any of the included, or to be included, in Schedule A to this Order annexed, shall beinade by means of" competitive examinations, according to regulations to be — from time to time framed by the said Civil Service Commissioners, and approved by the Commissioners of- her Majesty's Treasury, Reopen to all persons (of ■ the requisite, age, o. ( health, character, and* other qualifications < prescribed in the said regulations) who may £ be'desirous of attending the same, subject to f ■ the payment of such fees as 'the said Civil •^Service Commissioners, with the consent of •"{the - skid 'Commissioners.': of her, Majesty's Treasury/ mayvjfronr time to time require; such' examinations to be held at such periods, and for' such situations, or groups of'situa-i ' lions in thr^^OraifferMTrdepartnients- a* the said Oml * Service- Commissioners, with the approval of the said Commissioners of r J her Majesty's Treasury, shall from time to r,;!time deterniine, arid to have reference, either ; ' to the vacancies-'existiag at the > time of the 3 examinations respectively, or to the number which may be estimated to occur within any period T no£ exceeding six months after the commencement of the examination, as the said Civil Service Commissioner*, after consult^ion" with "the chief "authorities of trie vari6uß depkrttnents-, and with the approval of the said .Conprnisiionerß of her Majesty?* 1 Treasury, may deem expedient. ' VI. After "the, candidate, reported as aforesaid by-, .the. Commissiqners, has been appointed to 'an office or employment, he shall • • enter. on a period "of .probation, during which : his conduct land capacity in the transaction of business 1 snail be subjected' to such tests as may be determined by the chief of the dtpartment td which he'jsattaohedj'atwl'he shail not remain in the public • service .after six months from "the 'date of ' his unless satisfactory 1 proofs of r his fitness shall have been furnished to the chief* of su< h department, and a certificate of bis qualification sHatt' hate been usued by. the Ciiil '"Service ■Gommissioners. A formal record >f the particular* and of the r«suttof such probation, signed by the chief of the dep&rtraei t, shallbe furnished to the. Civil Service Cotinnßsionersj'atfd'filed in their office, and thi:y shall thereupon and 1 not sooner, if such lecord should;, bey satisfactory, issue their certificate of 'the caijaidateV qualification fir employment, "T^er candidate no has than before,. the ifsiiefof sucty certificate shull hold hisoffloe at p the pleasure cf the chief of his department. VII. In case the chief of a department tv

which a situation belongs and the Lords of the Treasury shall consider that the qualifi- , cations in respect of knowledge and ability deemed requisite for such situation are wholly or in part professional, or otherwise peculiar, and not ordinarily to be acquired in the Civil Service, and the said chief of the department shall propose to appoint thereto a person who has acquired such qualifications in other pursuits, or in case the said chief of the Department and the Lords of the Treasury shall consider that, either for the purpose of facilitating transfers from the redundant List or for other reasons it would be for the public interest that examination should be wholly or partially dispensed with, the Civil Service Commissioners may dispense with examination, wholly or partially, and may grant their certificate of qualification upon evidence satisfactory to them that the said person possesses the requisite knowledge and ability, and is duly qualified in respect of age. health, and character. VIII. And it is lastly hereby ordered that the situations mentioned, or referred to, in the Schedule marked B, hereto annexed, shall be wholly exeepted from the operation of this order, provided that the chief authorities of any department, with the concurrence of the Lords of the Treasury, by notice in the London Gazette, may, from time to time, add situations to either of the said schedules, or withdraw situations therefrom, or restore thereto situations which may have been withdrawn. Edmund Harbison.