✨ Post and Telegraph Department Regulations
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P.O. 24, indicating which branch of the Department he desires to enter, and must furnish such certificates of age, character, health, and education as may be required by the regulations framed from time to time under “The Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act, 1890,” and its amendments. Certificates purporting to be Sixth Standard certificates (or certificates of competency or proficiency) unless signed or countersigned by an Inspector of Schools or the Secretary of an Education Board are not authentic if dated later than the 17th October, 1898.
31. Officers must take every opportunity of having the medical certificate written out on the proper form (P.O. 173). Whenever possible to do so, an ordinary written certificate should be returned to the medical practitioner with a polite request that he will fill up the proper form, a copy of which should be sent him.
32. Every person, except a telegraph messenger, appointed to any position in the Department is subject to three months’ probation, and in the case of telephone-exchange cadettes to four months’, and it is the duty of Chief Postmasters and Officers in Charge to report to the Secretary immediately on the expiration of such probation, or of any extension thereof, as to the fitness of the probationer for permanent appointment. The report must not be delayed. (Read here Rules 180 and T. 309.)
33. Appointees whose medical certificates have been given six months before the date of appointment are required to be re-examined, and a fresh certificate of health furnished. Lads promoted to cadetships must undergo a medical examination after their promotion before their appointment will be confirmed. The cost will be borne by the Department if the cadet has already been examined for departmental purposes at his own expense.
34. Cadets over eighteen years of age are required to serve for three years as Volunteers, such service to be continuous until fulfilled. It is to be understood that cadets are to serve as Volunteers immediately on reaching the age of eighteen years, however likely it may be that their promotion from the class of cadets will occur immediately, or at any time before they have served three years.
35. Married women, widows excepted, are not eligible for permanent appointments, and female employees must resign when they marry. A married woman may, however, hold the position of Postmistress or Telephonist at any non-permanent office under circumstances approved of by the Minister.
36. The Establishment-book supplied by the Department,
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