77Decisions under s. 73, appeal against to Appeal Board

##### 77. Decisions under s. 73, appeal against to Appeal Board (1) Any person who, being permanently employed on a government railway, is, under section 73, — (a) fined; or (b) reduced to a lower class or grade; or (c) dismissed; or (d) suspended from employment in such circumstances as to involve loss of pay; or (e) transferred by way of punishment involving loss of transfer expenses, may, in the prescribed manner, appeal to an Appeal Board constituted as hereinafter provided, except where the person is the occupant of an office prescribed under section 73 as one in respect of which the exercise of any of the powers referred to in that section is subject to the Minister, in which case the person shall not have a right of appeal to an Appeal Board so constituted, but the person may in manner prescribed by the regulations appeal to the Magistrates Court. (2) No person shall be deemed permanently employed within the meaning of this section unless he has been continuously employed for 6 months. [Section 77 amended: No. 78 of 1948 s. 6 and 25; No. 61 of 1955 s. 5; No. 38 of 1958 s. 3; No. 31 of 2003 s. 130; No. 59 of 2004 s. 141; No. 19 of 2010 s. 60(4).]