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3. No person who is appointed to the Public Service under these regulations, and who would otherwise have been disqualified for such appointment, shall in any case obtain precedence over any officer of the Public Service appointed before him. 4. These regulations shall extend and apply to the temporary employees referred to in section 3, subsection (2), of the Temporary Employees Act, 1913, in the same manner as if they had been continuously employed in the Public Service under section 45 of the Public Service Act, 1912. As witness my hand, this eighth day of April, one thousand nine bundled and fourteen. D. Robertson, Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Temporary Employees Act, 1013, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council ot the said Dominion, approves of the foregoing regulations. Liverpool, Governor. Approved in Council, this eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen. J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council.

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