SEPT. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1919

The Civil Service of India; Clerkships (Class I.) in the Home Civil Service; and Eastern Cadetships.

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Education Department,
Wellington, 1st September, 1903.

THE following regulations respecting examinations for the Civil Service of India, for clerkships (Class I.) in the Home Civil Service, and for Eastern cadetships, are published for general information.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Education.

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EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

An open competitive examination for admission to the Civil Service of India will be held in London, under the subjoined regulations, commencing on the 1st August, 1904.

The number of persons to be elected at this examination will be announced hereafter.

No person will be admitted to compete from whom the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, has not received, on or before the 1st July, 1904, an application on the prescribed form, accompanied by a list of the subjects in which the candidate desires to be examined.

If candidates who fill up and return the application form do not receive an acknowledgment of it within four complete days, they should write to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, London, W.

The order for admission to the examination will be posted on the 18th July, 1904, to the address given on the form of application. It will contain instructions as to the time and place at which candidates will be required to attend, and as to the manner in which the fee (£6) is to be paid.

Civil Service Commission, 17th June, 1903.

Regulations.

** The following regulations, made by the Secretary of State for India in Council, are liable to alteration from year to year.

1. An examination for admission to the Civil Service of India, open to all qualified persons, will be held in London in August of each year. The date of the examination and the number of appointments to be made for each province will be announced beforehand by the Civil Service Commissioners.

2. No person will be deemed qualified who shall not satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners—

(1.) That he is a natural-born subject of His Majesty.

(2.) That he had attained the age of twenty-one, and had not attained the age of twenty-three, on the first day of the year in which the examination is held.

[N.B.—In the case of natives of India it will be necessary for a candidate to obtain a certificate of age and nationality issued under Notification of the Government of India, No. 2252, dated 21st August, 1888, as amended by Notification No. 404, dated 19th May, 1898, and signed, should he be a resident in British India, by the Secretary to Government of the province, or the Commissioner of the division, within which his family resides, or, should he reside in a native State, by the highest political officer accredited to the State in which his family resides.]

(3.) That he has no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity unfitting him, or likely to unfit him, for the Civil Service of India.

(4.) That he is of good moral character.

3. Should the evidence upon the above points be prima facie satisfactory to the Civil Service Commissioners, the candidate, on payment of the prescribed fee, will be admitted to the examination. The Commissioners may, however, in their discretion, at any time prior to the grant of the certificate of qualification hereinafter referred to, institute such further inquiries as they may deem necessary; and if the result of such inquiries, in the case of any candidate, should be unsatisfactory to them in any of the above respects, he will be ineligible for admission to the Civil Service of India, and, if already selected, will be removed from the position of a probationer.

4. The open competitive examination will take place only in the following branches of knowledge:—

English composition .. .. .. 500
Sanskrit language and literature .. .. .. 500
Arabic language and literature .. .. .. 500
Greek language and literature .. .. .. 750
Latin language and literature .. .. .. 750
English language and literature (including special period named by the Commissioners)(a) .. .. .. 500
French language and literature .. .. .. 500
German language and literature .. .. .. 500
Mathematics (pure and applied) .. .. .. 900
Advanced mathematical subjects (pure and applied) .. .. .. 900
Natural science—i.e., any number not exceeding three of the following subjects:—
Chemistry .. .. .. 600
Physics .. .. .. 600
Geology .. .. .. 600
Botany .. .. .. 600
Zoology .. .. .. 600
Animal physiology .. .. .. 600
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Greek history (ancient, including constitution) 400
Roman history (ancient, including constitution) .. .. .. 400
English history .. .. .. 500
General modern history (one of the periods specified in the syllabus issued by the Commissioners)(a) .. .. .. 500
Logic and mental philosophy (ancient and modern) .. .. .. 400
Moral philosophy (ancient and modern) .. .. .. 400
Political economy and economic history .. .. .. 500
Political science (including analytical jurisprudence, the early history of institutions, and theory of legislation) .. .. .. 500
Roman law .. .. .. 500
English law. Under the head of “English law” shall be included the following subjects—viz., (1) law of contract, (2) law of evidence, (3) law of the Constitution, (4) criminal law, (5) law of real property; and of these five subjects candidates shall be at liberty to offer any four, but not more than four .. .. .. 500

Candidates are at liberty to name any or all of these branches of knowledge(a). None is obligatory.

5. The merit of the persons examined will be estimated by marks; and the number set opposite to each branch in the preceding regulation denotes the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it.

6. The marks assigned to candidates in each branch will be subject to such deduction as the Civil Service Commissioners may deem necessary(b) in order to secure that no credit be allowed for merely superficial knowledge.

7. The examination will be conducted on paper and viva voce, as may be deemed necessary.

8. The marks obtained by each candidate in respect of each of the branches in which he shall have been examined will be added up, and the names of the several candidates who shall have obtained, after the deduction above mentioned, a greater aggregate number of marks than any of the remaining candidates will be set forth in order of merit, and such candidates shall be deemed to be selected candidates for the Civil Service of India, provided they appear to be in other respects duly qualified. Should any of the selected candidates become disqualified, the Secretary of State for India will determine whether the vacancy thus created shall be filled up or not. In the former case, the candidate next in order of merit, and in other respects duly qualified, shall be deemed to be a selected candidate. A candidate entitled to be deemed a selected candidate, but declining to accept the nomination as such which may be offered to him, will be disqualified for any subsequent competition.

9. Selected candidates, before proceeding to India, will be on probation for one year, at the end of which time they will be examined with a view of testing their progress in the following subjects(c):—

Compulsory—
(1.) Indian Penal Code .. .. .. 400
(2.) Code of Criminal Procedure .. .. .. 200
(3.) The Indian Evidence Act .. .. .. 200
(4.) Indian history .. .. .. 400

(a) A syllabus defining the character of the examination in the various subjects may be obtained on application to the Secretary Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, London, W.
(b) No deduction will be made from the marks assigned to candidates in mathematics or English composition.
(c) Instructions showing the extent of the examination will be issued to the successful candidates as soon as possible after the result of the open competition is declared.