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21. Such supernumerary officers shall receive no pay in respect Pay of supernumerary officers.
    of the New Zealand Public Service, but shall for all other purposes
    be deemed to remain officers of that service and of the Department
    thereof to which they are so attached.

22. Any such supernumerary officer shall, so long as he remains Appointment of supernumerary officers to New Zealand Service.
    an officer of the Samoan Public Service, be qualified for appointment
    to any office in the New Zealand Public Service for which he would
    have been qualified had he remained an active member of that service,
    and on receiving such appointment he shall cease to be an officer of
    the Samoan Public Service.

23. When any officer is, at the time when he becomes a Contributions of supernumerary officers to superannuation fund.
    supernumerary officer as aforesaid, a contributor to any superannuation fund, the salary which he receives as an officer of 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 that fund, and contributions thereto
    shall continue to be made by him accordingly.

24. In computing for the purposes of any Superannuation Act Computation of length of service in Samoa.
    the length of service of any officer who is or has been a supernumerary
    officer of the New Zealand Public Service, or who holds or has held
    offices concurrently in that service and in the Samoan Public Service,
    every complete continuous year of his service, after the commencement
    of this Order, in the Samoan Public Service shall be computed as one
    year and a half.

25. The Public Service Act, 1912, shall have no application to Public Service Act, 1912, not applicable.
    the Samoan Public Service or to officers of the New Zealand Public
    Service in their capacity as officers of the Samoan Public Service.

26. Save as expressly provided by this Order, the Superannuation Superannuation Acts not applicable.
    Acts shall have no application to the Samoan Public Service.

27. An appointment to an office in the Samoan Public Service Appointments in anticipation of vacancies.
    may be made to take effect at a future date, not being later than one
    month after the date of appointment, notwithstanding the fact that the
    office is not yet vacant at the date of appointment.

The Samoan Treasury.

28. The Public revenues of Samoa shall consist of— Moneys forming part of Samoan revenue.
    (a.) Revenues of Customs collected in the Territory;
    (b.) Court and other fees received in the Territory;
    (c.) Taxes imposed by any Act, Ordinance, or regulation
    (d.) Rents and profits of Crown lands in the Territory, save where
    otherwise provided by Order in Council;
    (e.) Revenues derived from the Post and Telegraph service in the
    Territory;
    (f.) All other revenues derived by the Crown from the Territory;
    and
    (g.) Moneys issued from the Public Account by way of loan to
    the Samoan Treasury in accordance with the provisions
    of this Order in that behalf.

29. The public revenues of Samoa shall constitute a single fund Samoan Treasury.
    to be known as the Samoan Treasury.

30. There shall be an officer of the Samoan Public Service, to be Treasurer of Samoa.
    called the Treasurer of Western Samoa, who shall be charged with the
    receipt, custody, accounts, and expenditure of the moneys of the
    Samoan Treasury.

31. All expenditure in respect of Samoa shall be payable out Expenditure of Samoa.
    of the Samoan Treasury, except so far as any such expenditure is
    otherwise provided for by Parliament as payable out of the public
    revenues of New Zealand.

32. The collection, expenditure, and control of the public revenues Regulations as to revenue and expenditure.
    of Samoa and the audit of the accounts of the Samoan Treasury shall
    be in accordance with such regulations as may from time to time be
    made by the Governor-General in Council in that behalf.

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