Third Schedule, The Pensions (Amendment) Act, Short title (1964)

REMOVAL OF A PUBLIC OFFICER ON THE GROUNDS OF GENERAL INEFFICIENCY-RULES 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any enactment cr Government General Order, if a Head of Department (which expression shall bear the meaning assigned to it in any Regulations made by the Public Service Commission under section 102 of the Constitution) considers that an oficer in the public service should be removed from his office on the ground of his inability to discharge efficiently the duties thereof he shall report the facts to theEstablishment Secretary who shall obtain from the Heads of any Departmentsin which the officer concerned has served statements as to his general standardsof efficiency and shall allow that officer an opportunity of considering all suchstatements and of showing cause why he should not be removed from theservice or otherwise be dealt with for general inefficiency.2. If the Establishment Secretary, after considering the statement (1f any)of the officer concerned, is of opinion that he should be 1emoved fi om the serViceor otheiwise dealt with for general ineficiency he shall forwardto the Secretary of the Public Service Commission the statements of the Heads of Departmens and of the officer concerned with his own recommendation.3. The Public Service Commission, after consideration of the statementsand recomme nendation, referred to in Rule 2., and of any other matter which it Provided that no decision of the Commission affecting the pension rights of such an oficer shall be put into effect until the Same has beenconfirmed by the Governor-Generai." deems desirable having regard to the circumstances, shall decide as to whether the officer concerned should be removed from the service or otherwise dealt No. 24 Pensions (Amendmen) be Passed in the House of Representatives this /3th day of May. in thevear cf our Lord one housand nine hundred and sixty-four. MP. OPM. 558/5 A 183 [HIS PR NIED IRESs ON has been carefully compared by me wilhhe Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me toa true and correctly pin'ed copy of the said Bil!. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the HoUse of Representatives S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives.