17.—(1.) For the purposes of this Division, “efficiency” means special qualifications and aptitude for the discharge of the duties of the office to be filled, together with merit, diligence and good conduct, and, in the case of an officer who has, at any time, been engaged on war service, includes such efficiency as, in the opinion of the High Commissioner, the officer would have attained but for his absence on war service, and “efficient” has a corresponding meaning.
(2.) The relative seniority of officers who were appointed under the High Commissioner Act 1909, or under that Act as amended, before the fifth day of November, 1941, shall be determined by the respective dates of those appointments.
(3.) The relative seniority of officers other than those referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation shall, subject to this regulation, be determined according to the dates of the officers’ appointments to the Service.
(4.) An officer appointed as an officer of the Service who was, immediately before his appointment, an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth shall be deemed to have been appointed to the Service, for the purposes of this regulation, on the date of his appointment as an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth.
(5.) The relative seniorities of two or more officers who are or were appointed on the same day shall be determined by the High Commissioner.
Notification of vacancies.
18.—(1.) Where a vacancy exists in an office in the Service and, in the opinion of the High Commissioner, it is necessary to fill the vacancy, the High Commissioner shall cause a notification to be circulated in the Service inviting applications for appointment, promotion or transfer to the office.
(2.) A notification under the last preceding sub-regulation shall include—
(a) particulars relating to the educational qualifications determined in respect of the office under regulation 14 of these Regulations; and
(b) the salaries, or limits of salary, payable in respect of the office.
Filling of vacancies.
19.—(1.) The High Commissioner may fill a vacancy in an office in the Service by—
(a) the transfer or promotion to the vacancy of an officer who has obtained the educational qualifications determined in respect of the office under regulation 14 of these Regulations; or
(b) the appointment as an officer in the vacancy of a person who is not an officer but who is eligible for appointment under Division 2 of this Part.
(2.) The High Commissioner shall cause a notification of particulars of an appointment, promotion or transfer to be circulated in the Service.
Promotion of officers.
In the selection of an officer for promotion to a vacant office, consideration shall first be given to the relative efficiency of the officers available for promotion and, in the event of equality of efficiency of two or more officers, then to the relative seniority of those officers.
Appeals against promotions of officers.
21.—(1.) The promotion of an officer to a vacant office is provisional and without increased salary pending confirmation of the promotion and is subject to appeal as provided by this regulation.
(2.) An officer who considers that he should have been promoted to a vacant office in preference to the officer provisionally promoted may appeal to the Promotions Appeal Committee established under the next succeeding regulation on the ground that—
(a) he is more efficient than the officer provisionally promoted; or
(b) he is just as efficient as, and is senior to, the officer provisionally promoted.
(3.) An appeal shall be in writing setting out the ground of the appeal and shall be lodged with the Chairman of the Promotions Appeal Committee within seven days after the date on which the provisional promotion was notified.
(4.) Where an appeal is made under this regulation, the Promotions Appeal Committee shall make full inquiry into the claims of the appellant and those of the officer provisionally promoted and shall make a recommendation of the High Commissioner, who shall determine the appeal.
(5.) Where the appeal is upheld, the appellant shall be promoted to the vacant office and the provisional promotion shall be cancelled.
(6.) Where the appeal is disallowed, or where no appeal is made in accordance with sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation, the provisional promotion shall be confirmed.
(7.) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, the High Commissioner may, at any time after the notification of a provisional promotion to a vacant office and before the promotion has been confirmed, cancel the provisional promotion if he is satisfied that—
(a) the office is unnecessary;
(b) the office can be filled by the transfer of another officer; or
(c) in the circumstances, notification or further notification of the vacant office is desirable.
(8.) The powers of the High Commissioner under the last preceding sub-regulation may be exercised whether an appeal has been lodged or not.
Promotions Appeal Committee.
22.—(1.) For the purposes of appeals under the last preceding regulation, there shall be a Promotions Appeal Committee.
(2.) The Promotions Appeal Committee shall consist of—
(a) a Chairman appointed by the High Commissioner;
(b) an officer appointed by the Official Secretary; and
(c) an officers’ representative ascertained, for the purposes of each appeal, in accordance with sub-regulation (5.) of this regulation.
(3.) For the purposes of this regulation, the offices in the Service shall be divided into groups by the High Commissioner and an officers’ representative and a deputy officers’ representative for each group of offices shall be elected by the staff organization approved by the High Commissioner as appropriate for that group of offices.
(4.) An officers’ representative and a deputy officers’ representative hold office for such period as is determined by the staff organization by which they are elected and are eligible for re-election.
(5.) For the purposes of an appeal, the officers’ representative who shall act as a member of the Promotions Appeal Committee is the officers’ representative for the group of offices in the Service in which the office to which the provisional promotion has been made is included.
(6.) A deputy officers’ representative for a group of offices may, in the event of there being a vacancy in the office of the officers’ representative for that group of officers, or in the event of the inability of that officers’ representative to act in relation to an appeal (whether as a result of a direction given under sub-regulation (8.) of this regulation or otherwise), act as a member of the Promotions Appeal Committee and shall, while so acting, be deemed to be a member of the Committee.
(7.) A member of the Promotions Appeal Committee shall, before proceeding to perform the duties or exercise the powers of a member of the Promotions Appeal Committee, take an oath or make an affirmation in accordance with the form in the Third Schedule to these Regulations.
(8.) Where, before or during the hearing of an appeal, the Chairman is of opinion that the officers’ representative is personally interested in, or may be personally affected by, the appeal, the Chairman may direct that the officers’ representative shall not act or continue to act as a member of the Promotions Appeal Committee in relation to that appeal.
(9.) Where the Chairman exercises his power under the last preceding sub-regulation during the hearing of an appeal, the hearing of the appeal shall be re-commenced.
(10.) Where, at a meeting of the Promotions Appeal Committee, the members are divided in opinion on a question, the question shall be determined in accordance with the decision of the majority.
Temporary transfers.
23.—(1.) The High Commissioner may temporarily transfer an officer or employee from one office or temporary position to another office or temporary position.
(2.) Where it is necessary to fill an office or temporary position temporarily for a period exceeding one month by the transfer of an officer or employee of a lower classification or where a temporary transfer exceeds one month, an officer or employee may appeal against the temporary transfer on the ground that—
(a) he is the senior available efficient officer or employee; or
(b) he is the most efficient available officer or employee.
(3.) The procedure for dealing with an appeal under this regulation is the same as for an appeal against a provisional promotion.
PART III.—SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES.
Division 1.—Salaries.
Salaries of officers.
24.—(1.) An officer who occupies an office opposite to which a scale of rates of salary is specified in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations shall, subject to this regulation, be paid annual salary at such rate or in accordance with such scale of rates within the scale of rates so specified as is allotted to the office by virtue of its classification.
(2.) An officer who occupies the office of Senior Painter, Electrician, Carpenter, Plumber, Painter or French Polisher shall, subject to this regulation, be paid annual salary at the rate specified in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations opposite to the designation of the office.
(3.) Where a female officer occupies an office for a period before the first day of July, 1961, annual salary is payable to her in respect of her service in the office for that period at the rate, or in accordance with the scale of rates, of annual salary that would otherwise be payable under this regulation less—
(a) if she has not attained the age of nineteen years—Five pounds;
(b) if she has attained the age of nineteen years but has not attained the age of twenty years—Seven pounds;
(c) if she has attained the age of twenty years but has not attained the age of twenty-one years—Ten pounds; or
(d) if she has attained the age of twenty-one years—Fifteen pounds.
(4.) Subject to these Regulations, an officer shall, unless otherwise determined by the Minister, be paid salary on promotion or transfer to an office at the rate applicable to that office or at the minimum rate within the scale of rates applicable to that office.
(5.) Where an officer is transferred or promoted from an office in which he was receiving salary at a rate higher than the minimum rate of salary in the scale of rates of salary applicable to the office to which he is transferred or promoted, the officer shall not suffer any reduction in his salary.
Increments.
25.—(1.) Where a scale of rates of salary under the last preceding regulation is applicable in relation to an officer, the officer may, subject to this regulation, be paid increments of salary in accordance with that scale.
(2.) An officer is not entitled to receive an increment of salary until he has received salary without the increment for not less than twelve months.
(3.) The date from which an officer is entitled to receive an increment of salary is not affected by an alteration of classification of the office occupied by the officer, being an alteration in relation to which a direction is given under sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 8 of these Regulations.
(4.) If, having regard to the conduct, diligence, efficiency or attendance for duty of an officer during the period after which he is entitled to receive an increment of salary, the Official Secretary is of opinion that the officer should not immediately receive that increment, the Official Secretary may, by order in writing, direct that the increment shall not be paid until the expiration of such period as he thinks fit and, in that case, payment of the increment shall be deferred until the expiration of that period.
(5.) An officer in relation to whom the Official Secretary has made an order under the last preceding sub-regulation may appeal to the High Commissioner and the High Commissioner shall, after enquiry, determine the appeal.
(6.) This regulation does not apply to and in relation to an officer who is paid an annual rate of salary according to age.
Conditions of advancement.
26.—(1.) The High Commissioner may, by writing under his hand—
(a) determine that an officer occupying an office specified in the determination shall, upon compliance with such conditions as are so specified, be paid salary at such rate as is so specified, being salary at a rate not exceeding maximum salary applicable to that office; and
(b) determine that an officer shall not be paid salary at a rate exceeding such rate as is specified in the determination unless he has complied with such conditions as are so specified.
(2.) A determination under the last preceding sub-regulation has effect notwithstanding the last preceding regulation.
Pay of employees.
27.—(1.) An employee who occupies a temporary position in the Service provided under regulation 9 of these Regulations shall be paid salary at such rate, or in accordance with such scale of rates, as is determined by the High Commissioner for that position.
(2.) Where an employee performs the duties of an office, he shall be paid salary at the rate, or in accordance with the scale of rates, applicable to an officer in that office.
(3.) Where an employee was previously employed as an officer of the Third Class under the repealed Regulations as in force before the commencement of these Regulations or as an employee or both, the continuity of his employment shall be deemed not to have been broken for the purpose of calculating his incremental advancement if—
(a) that previous employment was terminated for a reason other than for misconduct; and
(b) during a period not exceeding fourteen months before that advancement becomes due, he was employed for a total period of twelve months.
Division 2.—Allowances for Duty outside Normal Hours.
Overtime.
28.—(1.) In this regulation, “overtime” means—
(a) in relation to an officer or employee whose normal hours of duty are thirty-six and three-quarters hours per week—
(i) duty performed before eight o’clock in the morning or after six o’clock in the afternoon on any day from Monday to Friday (inclusive);
(ii) duty performed between eight o’clock in the morning and six o’clock in the afternoon on any day from Monday to Friday (inclusive) if he completes his normal hours of duty and performs duty before eight o’clock in the morning or after six o’clock in the afternoon of that day;
(iii) duty in excess of thirty-eight hours in the period from Monday to Friday (inclusive) in any week during the hours between eight o’clock in the morning and six o’clock in the afternoon, not being duty to which the last preceding sub-paragraph applies; or
(iv) duty performed on a Saturday, not being duty for which time off duty is granted under sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 43 of these Regulations; or
(b) in relation to an officer or employee whose normal hours of duty exceed thirty-six and three-quarters hours per week—any duty performed before his normal hour of commencing duty or performed after his normal hour of ceasing duty,
being duty performed in pursuance of a direction of the Official Secretary or the officer in charge of the branch to return to duty, in order to bring up arrears of business or to meet pressure of business, given to him before he ceased duty for the day and left his place of duty, or if the overtime duty is performed on a Saturday, given to him before he ceased duty on the preceding day.
(2.) For the purpose of this regulation, the period of overtime shall be deemed to include the time necessarily spent by the officer or employee in travelling to his place of duty to perform overtime and returning to his home.
(3.) Where an officer or employee performs overtime with the sanction of the Official Secretary or, if the circumstances do not permit of such a sanction being given before the overtime is performed, the performance of
overtime is subsequently sanctioned by the Official Secretary, the officer or employee shall be paid in respect of that overtime in accordance with this regulation.
(4.) For the purpose of payment, overtime shall be calculated to the nearest quarter of an hour of the total period of overtime worked in each fortnightly pay period.
(5.) Subject to the next two succeeding sub-regulations, the hourly rate of overtime payment shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula:—
start formula start fraction Rate of Annual Salary over 313 end fraction times start fraction 6 over Number of weekly hours before overtime is payable end fraction times start fraction 3 over 2 end fraction end formula
(6.) The hourly rate of overtime payment shall be calculated to the nearest penny.
(7.) The minimum rate of overtime payment shall be at the rate of Three shillings per hour and the maximum rate of overtime payment shall be at the rate of Ten shillings and fivepence per hour.
(8.) A male officer or employee in receipt of a salary exceeding a salary at the rate of £1,695 per annum is not entitled to payment for overtime.
(9.) Officers or employees not working under close supervision and officers or employees whose hours of duty cannot be definitely determined are not entitled to payment for overtime except in such cases and on such conditions as the High Commissioner approves.
(10.) An allowance paid to an officer for the performance of higher duties shall be deemed to be part of the officer’s salary for the purpose of computing payment for overtime.
(11.) Where an officer or employee, performs duty after the time at which his normal hours of duty end on one day and before the time at which his normal hours of duty are to commence on the next succeeding day for a period which results in the officer or employee not being off duty between those times for a continuous period of not less than eight hours, the officer or employee is, unless directed by the officer in charge of his branch to report for duty at an earlier time, entitled to absent himself from duty, without loss of salary, until he has, from the time when he ceased to perform overtime duty, been off duty for a continuous period of eight hours.
(12.) For the purpose of this regulation, if a holiday occurs in any week or an officer or employee is absent on authorized leave in any week, the number of hours per week to be worked before overtime can be claimed shall be reduced—
(a) if the normal hours of duty per week of the officer or employee are defined—by the number of hours for which the officer or employee would have been required to attend for duty if the day or half a day on which the holiday occurs was not a holiday, or by the number of hours for which the officer or employee would have been required to attend for duty on the day or days on which he is so absent, as the case requires; and
(b) if the normal hours of duty of the officer or employee vary with the volume of work to be performed—
(i) for a full day’s absence on authorized leave or for a holiday—by the number of hours which would ordinarily have been paid for in respect of an average day’s duty on the day of absence or on which the holiday occurred;
(ii) for half a day’s absence on authorized leave or for a holiday for half a day—by the number of hours, from the commencement of the authorized leave or the holiday, required to complete the time which would ordinarily have been paid for in respect of an average day’s duty on the day on which he was so absent or on which the holiday occurred; or
(iii) for authorized leave of less than half a day or for more than half a day but less than a full day— by the actual number of hours of leave granted.
Emergency duty.
29.—(1.) Where an officer or employee is recalled for duty on a day to meet an emergency at a time when he would not ordinarily have been on duty, and the direction to attend for duty was given to him after he had ceased his normal duty and left his place of duty on that day, he shall be paid for the emergency duty at twice his normal rate of hourly salary.
(2.) The period of emergency duty includes the time necessarily spent by the officer or employee in travelling to his place of duty to perform the emergency duty and returning to his home.
(3.) The minimum payment for emergency duty under this regulation shall be the amount payable in accordance with this regulation in respect of two hours’ emergency duty.
(4.) Where an officer or employee performs emergency duty and, in the opinion of the officer in charge of his branch, it is essential that the officer or employee be given a respite from duty in the interests of his health, the officer or employee is entitled to absent himself from duty without loss of salary for a period not exceeding the period of the emergency duty worked.
Sunday duty.
30.—(1.) An officer or employee who is required to perform duty on a Sunday shall be paid in respect of that duty in accordance with this regulation.
(2.) Where—
(a) the whole or any part of the duty performed by an officer or employee on a Sunday is in excess of his normal hours of duty per week; or
(b) an officer or employee performs duty on a Sunday in pursuance of a direction given before he has ceased duty for the preceding week,
the officer or employee shall, subject to sub-regulations (6.) and (7.) of this regulation, be paid for the duty performed on that Sunday at twice his normal rate of hourly salary.
(3.) Where the whole of the duty that is in excess of his normal hours of duty per week is performed by an officer or employee before nine o’clock in the morning on a Sunday or after seven o’clock in the evening on a Sunday, the officer or employee shall be paid at the rate ascertained for Sunday duty under this regulation for a minimum of one and a half hours’ Sunday duty.
(4.) Where a portion of the duty that is in excess of his normal hours of duty per week is performed by an officer or employee between nine o’clock in the morning and seven o’clock in the evening on a Sunday or an officer or employee is required to attend more than once on a Sunday, the officer or employee shall be paid at the rate ascertained for Sunday duty under this regulation for a minimum of three hours’ Sunday duty.
(5.) Where an officer or employee performs duty on a Sunday referred to in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation, the time necessarily spent by him in connexion with that duty in travelling to his place of duty and returning to his home shall, for the purposes of this regulation, be regarded as part of the duty so performed.
(6.) Where an officer or employee performs a full day’s duty on a Sunday and that duty is in excess of his normal hours of duty per week, the officer or employee shall, if practicable, be granted a day off duty during the five days immediately succeeding that Sunday and, if the officer or employee is so granted a day off duty, he shall, for the duty performed on that Sunday, be paid at his normal hourly rate of pay.
(7.) The maximum hourly rate of pay for the purposes of this regulation shall be at the rate of Ten shillings and fivepence per hour.
(8.) Except with the approval of the High Commissioner, a male officer or employee in receipt of a salary exceeding a salary at the rate of £1,695 per annum is not entitled to payment for duty on a Sunday.
Holiday pay and time-off duty for holiday duty.
31.—(1.) Where an officer or employee is required to perform duty on the whole or part of a day observed as a holiday in the Service, the Official Secretary shall grant to the officer or employee time off duty for the period of duty performed on the holiday or payment of an amount calculated in accordance with this regulation in respect of the performance of duty on the holiday.
(2.) Where the Official Secretary determines that an officer or employee shall be paid holiday pay, the amount payable to the officer or employee for the performance of a full day’s duty or less than a full day’s duty on a holiday shall be calculated by multiplying the hourly rate of salary ascertained in accordance with sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation by the number of hours of duty that the officer or employee performs on the holiday, but the amount payable shall not in any case be less than the salary payable to him for the performance of one half of the normal number of hours of duty that the officer or employee would have been required to perform if the day had not been a holiday.
(3.) Where an officer or employee performs more than a full day’s duty on a holiday, he shall be paid an amount equal to the sum of—
(a) an amount calculated by multiplying the hourly rate of salary ascertained in accordance with the next succeeding sub-regulation by the number of hours of duty that the officer or employee would have been required to perform if the day had not been a holiday; and
(b) an amount calculated by multiplying each complete quarter of an hour performed on that day in excess of the period equal to his normal hours of duty by twice his normal hourly rate of salary.
(4.) For the purposes of the last two preceding sub-regulations, the hourly rate of salary shall be ascertained in accordance with the following formula:—
start formula start fraction Rate of Annual Salary over 313 end fraction times start fraction 6 over Normal weekly hours of duty end fraction end formula
(5.) The rate of salary for the purposes of this regulation shall not exceed the rate of Ten shillings and fivepence per hour.
(6.) Where an officer or employee performs duty on a holiday in pursuance of a direction given after he has ceased duty on the preceding working day and left his place of duty, that duty on a holiday includes the time necessarily spent in travelling to his place of duty and returning to his home.
(7.) Where an officer performs, on a holiday, the duties of an office having a higher classification than his own, the annual salary of the officer shall, for the purposes of this regulation, include any allowance payable for the performance of those duties.
(8.) Where the salary payable to an officer or employee exceeds £1,695 per annum, the Official Secretary shall grant to the officer or employee time off duty for the period of duty performed on a holiday.
(9.) Time off duty granted to an officer or employee under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation or under the last preceding sub-regulation shall be taken in conjunction with annual recreation leave or at such other time as the Official Secretary determines.
Division 3.—Higher Duties, Proficiency and Shift Duty Allowances.
Higher duties allowance to officers.
32.—(1.) An officer may be called upon to perform temporarily the duties of an office having a higher classification than his own.
(2.) Subject to this regulation, an officer who temporarily performs all the duties of a higher office shall be paid in respect of the performance of those duties an allowance, called “higher duties allowance”, equal to the amount of the difference between his rate of salary and the rate of salary of the higher office which he would receive if he were promoted to that higher office.
(3.) Unless the High Commissioner in special circumstances otherwise determines, an officer who performs the duties of a higher office the maximum salary of which exceeds £970 per annum for a period of less than a week, shall not be paid higher duties allowance, and that period shall not be included in any period of service for the purposes of this regulation.
(4.) Where an officer who has not attained the age of twenty-five years temporarily performs the duties of a higher office for which rates of salary payable to such an office are specially determined, he shall be paid higher duties allowance of an amount equal to the difference between the salary rate for his age in his own office and the salary rate for his age in the higher office.
(5.) Where the total continuous period during which an officer temporarily performs the duties of a higher office is less than the period of one day’s duty or a full shift, as the case may be, the officer shall not be entitled to payment for the period during which he performs the duties of the higher office and that period shall not be service in the higher office for the purposes of this regulation.
(6.) An officer who temporarily performs the duties of a higher office may, subject to the next two succeeding sub-regulations, be granted increments of the higher duties allowance of the same amounts as would be payable as increments of salary to him if he had been promoted to the higher office.
(7.) Where an officer temporarily performs the duties of a higher office in periods that are not continuous but aggregate in the total a period of more than twelve months, he may, at the completion of each such total period of twelve months, be granted an increment of the higher duties allowance of the same amount as is payable as an increment of salary to an officer occupying the higher office if—
(a) in the case of the first increment, the total period of twelve months’ performance of higher duties is completed within the period of twenty-four months that immediately precedes that completion; and
(b) in the case of a subsequent increment, the total requisite period of performance of higher duties is completed within the period of time equal to twice the total period of performance of duties of the higher office that immediately precedes that completion.
(8.) For the purposes of the last two preceding sub-regulations, performance of the duties of another office having the same classification as, or a higher classification than, the higher office shall be deemed to be performance of the duties of the higher office.
(9.) Paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (7.) of this regulation does not operate so as to authorize the grant of an increment to an officer unless he has received the first or a subsequent increment in the higher duties allowance payable under this regulation for a period of twelve months.
(10.) Where an officer who is performing the duties of a higher office is permanently promoted to that office, he shall not suffer any reduction in his remuneration, and he may receive the same increments as if he had, during the period of his temporary service in the higher office, been the permanent occupant of that office.
(11.) Where an officer is permanently promoted to an office and, prior to his promotion, has performed the duties of a higher office of the same classification as the office to which he is promoted but is not performing those duties when he is promoted, the period for which he performed those duties shall be taken into account for the purposes of his incremental advancement in the same manner as it would have been taken into account under sub-regulation (6.) of this regulation if he had not been promoted.
(12.) Where an officer who is, or has been, performing the duties of a higher office is promoted to an office which is of lower classification than the office the duties of which he is or has been temporarily performing, his remuneration upon promotion shall be the same as the remuneration which he would have received had his period of service in the higher office been service in the office of lower classification.
(13.) Where an officer temporarily performs the duties of an office the conditions of service in which differ from those in the office normally occupied by the officer, he shall be subject to the first-mentioned conditions as though he were the permanent occupant of the office.
(14.) Where an officer temporarily performing the duties of a higher office does not perform all the duties of that office, he may be paid in respect of the performance of those duties a higher duties allowance of such amount and subject to such conditions as the High Commissioner determines.
(15.) Higher duties allowance granted under this regulation shall be regarded as salary for the purpose of calculating travelling allowance and meal allowance and payment for extra duty services and excess travelling time.
Proficiency allowances.
33.—(1.) An officer or employee occupying the office of Stenographer (Grade 1, Grade 2 or Grade 3) or Stenographer-Secretary to the High Commissioner or Stenographer-Secretary to the Deputy High Commissioner shall be paid an allowance, called “proficiency allowance”—
(a) at the rate of Twenty pounds per annum if she satisfies the High Commissioner by passing a test or other sufficient evidence of her efficiency in writing shorthand at the rate of one hundred words per minute; or
(b) at the rate of Forty pounds per annum if she satisfies the High Commissioner by passing a test or other sufficient evidence of her efficiency in writing shorthand at the rate of one hundred and twenty words per minute.
(2.) An officer or employee occupying the office of Stenographer (Grade 1, Grade 2 or Grade 3), Stenographer-Secretary to the High Commissioner, Typex Operator (Grade 1 or Grade 2), Typist, Transcription Typist or Clerical Assistant (Female) Typing shall be paid an allowance, called “proficiency allowance”, at the rate of Fifty pounds per annum if she satisfies the High Commissioner by passing a test or other sufficient evidence of her efficiency in typing at the rate of fifty words per minute.
(3.) An officer or employee occupying the office of Transcription Typist shall be paid an allowance, called “proficiency allowance”, at the rate of Thirty-six pounds per annum if she satisfies the High Commissioner that she is efficient in the performance of her duties.
Penalty rate for shift duty.
An officer or employee occuping the office of Machine Operator who is rostered to perform duty on shift shall be paid in addition to her salary an amount of Two shillings and ninepence in respect of each shift worked.