New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 51

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✨ Samoa Public Service Regulations



REGULATIONS.

  1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Samoa Public Service Regulations, 1920.

  2. An officer of the Samoan Public Service may resign his office by giving three months' notice in writing of his resignation to the Administrator, and on the expiry of such notice his office shall become vacant.

  3. If an officer has on his appointment undertaken to serve in his office for any fixed period, he shall not be competent to resign his office before the expiry of that period.

  4. When an officer of the Samoan Public Service is a contributor to a Superannuation Fund in respect of the salary of his office in the Samoan Public Service, the Treasurer of Western Samoa shall deduct from the salary of that officer in every month the amount of his contribution to the Superannuation Fund for that month, and shall remit the amount so deducted to the Secretary or other proper officer of the Board by which the Superannuation Fund is administered in New Zealand.

  5. No officer of the Samoan Public Service shall, without the written authority of the Administrator or of the Minister of External Affairs (which authority may be at any time withdrawn), be engaged or interested, whether as principal, agent, servant, director, manager, partner, or otherwise howsoever, and whether in Samoa or elsewhere, in the practice or carrying-on of any profession, trade or business otherwise than as a shareholder in an incorporated company.

  6. No officer of the Samoan Public Service shall, except in the strict course of official duty, disclose, publish, or use any information which he may have obtained in the course of or by reason of his official position.

  7. All official communications transmitted from Samoa by an officer of the Samoan Public Service to the Minister of External Affairs or to the Secretary for External Affairs shall be transmitted through the Administrator, and not otherwise.

  8. (1.) If an officer of the Samoan Public Service (other than a Judge of the High Court or an officer who is ex officio a member of the Legislative Council) commits a breach of any of these regulations, or is guilty of any insubordination, negligence, or misconduct in his office, he may be fined in such amount not exceeding ten pounds as the Administrator, with the approval of the Minister of External Affairs, thinks fit.

(2.) Every fine so imposed shall constitute a debt due by that officer to the Crown, and may be deducted from any moneys which may thereafter become payable to that officer by way of salary or allowance.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

THE SAMOA REGISTRATION OF EUROPEANS REGULATIONS, 1920.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this first day of April, 1920.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by clause four of the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920, a Samoan is defined as a person belonging to the Polynesian race, whether by pure or mixed descent, other than a person registered as a European in accordance with any regulations or Ordinance in force in Samoa, or the legitimate child of a father who is a



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🌏 Samoa Public Service Regulations, 1920 (continued from previous page)

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
1 April 1920
Regulations, Public Service, Samoa, Resignation, Superannuation, Conduct
  • F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council
  • Liverpool, Governor-General
  • The Right Honourable W. F. Massey, P.C., Presiding in Council