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Regulations as to
Samoan Public
Service.

Payment from
Samoan Treasury.

Appointment of
acting officers by
Administrator.

Suspension of
officers.

Appointment of
New Zealand
officers to Samoan
Public Service.

Status of officers
belonging to both
services.

New Zealand officers
in Samoa to be
deemed absent on
leave.

Contributions to
superannuation
fund.

Transfer from New
Zealand Service
to Samoan Service.

[No. 51

12. (1.) The pay, allowances, control, discipline, and management
    of the Samoan Public Service shall be in accordance with such
    regulations as may from time to time be made by the Governor-General
    in Council in that behalf.

(2.) Subject to any such regulations, officers of the Samoan Public
Service shall receive such pay and allowances as the Minister thinks fit,
or, in the case of officers appointed by the Administrator, such pay and
allowances as the Administrator thinks fit.

13. The pay and allowances of officers of the Samoan Public
    Service shall be paid out of the Samoan Treasury and shall be a first
    charge thereon.

14. When an officer of the Samoan Public Service, other than a
    Judge of the High Court, is absent from the Territory, or is suspended
    from his office, or is in the opinion of the Administrator incapable by
    reason of sickness or otherwise of performing the duties of his office, or
    when his office is vacant, the Administrator may appoint any other fit
    person to execute that office temporarily during such absence, suspension,
    incapacity, or vacancy.

15. (1.) The Administrator may, for misconduct or any other
    sufficient cause, suspend from the execution of his office any officer of
    the Samoan Public Service, other than a Judge of the High Court.

(2.) The Administrator shall forthwith report such suspension,
together with the reason therefor, to the Minister, who may either
continue or terminate such suspension.

(3.) If an officer while remaining so suspended is dismissed from
or resigns his office he shall not, unless the Minister otherwise directs, be
entitled to receive any salary in respect of the period of his suspension.

16. (1.) The holder of an office in the New Zealand Public Service
    may be appointed to an office in the Samoan Public Service, and both
    offices may be held by him concurrently.

(2.) No officer of the New Zealand Public Service shall be first
appointed to the Samoan Public Service without the consent of the
Public Service Commissioner, in the case of officers who are subject to
the Public Service Act, 1912, or in any other case without the consent
of the Minister in charge of the Department of the New Zealand Public
Service to which the officer belongs.

17. When an officer so holds concurrent offices in both services,
    his status, rights, and liabilities in each service shall be unaffected by
    the fact that he holds office in the other service; and in respect of each
    office he shall be subject to the laws governing the service to which
    that office belongs irrespective of his tenure of an office in the other
    service; and he shall in respect of each service be qualified for
    promotion, increase of salary, and appointment to any other office in
    the same manner as if he held no office in the other service.

18. So long as an officer so holds concurrent offices in both services
    he shall be deemed to be absent on leave without pay from his duty as
    an officer of the New Zealand Public Service.

19. So long as an officer so holds concurrent offices in both
    services and is a contributor to any superannuation fund in respect of
    his office in the New Zealand Public Service the salary received by
    him in respect of his office in the Samoan Public Service (exclusive of
    any tropical or other special allowance received by him in respect of his
    residence in Samoa) shall be deemed to be his salary for the purposes
    of the Superannuation Act by which that superannuation fund is
    governed, and his contributions shall be payable and his retiring-allow-
    ance shall be computed accordingly.

20. When an officer of the New Zealand Public Service is appointed
    to an office in the Samoan Public Service, and then or thereafter ceases
    to hold office in the New Zealand Public Service, he shall not be deemed
    for that reason to have retired from the New Zealand Public Service,
    but shall become a supernumerary officer of that service attached to the
    Department in which he formerly held office, and shall so remain so long
    as he continues to hold any office in the Samoan Public Service.