3Validation of certain re-classifications

3 Validation of certain re-classifications

(1) The variations in the salaries, or limits of salary, of offices or positions specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Act made by the authorities respectively specified in the second column of that Schedule on the dates respectively specified in the third column of that Schedule shall be deemed to have been lawfully made and shall have effect, and shall be deemed to have had effect from and including the dates respectively specified in the fourth column of that Schedule, as a re-classification of those offices or positions. (2) An office or position so re-classified shall be deemed not to have become vacant by reason of the re-classification. (3) Regulations may be made under the Public Service Act 1922-1955 for purposes of or in relation to a re-classification referred to in subsection (1) of this section of offices to which that Act applies and regulations so made shall be deemed to have come into operation on the tenth day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-six. (4) Any action taken before the commencement of this Act by an authority specified in the second column of the Schedule to this Act for purposes of or in relation to a re-classification referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to have been lawfully taken, and, if the authority specified a date as the date from which that action should be deemed to have had effect, to have had effect from that date. (5) The action referred to in the last preceding subsection includes, in the case of an office or position having varied limits of salary applicable to it by virtue of a re-classification referred to in subsection (1) of this section, action to determine: (a) the rate of salary, within those limits, which the occupant of that office or position was entitled to be paid as from the date specified in the fourth column of the Schedule to this Act in relation to that office or position; and (b) the date as from which the occupant of that office or position would become eligible to be granted his first increment of salary after the date so specified.