New Zealand Gazette – 1925 – No. 86

Page 3475

✨ Post and Telegraph Department Regulations



Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3475

If he appears, the evidence shall be taken in his presence or in the
presence of his representative or both.

  1. An appellant shall be entitled to be present or be represented at the hearing of his appeal, but shall not be entitled to appear in person if the Board unanimously decides that his presence is unnecessary.

  2. The Board of Appeal may, at the request of the appellant, allow any person to appear before them on his behalf.

  3. The Crown shall be represented by the Permanent Head, by counsel, or by a senior officer of the Department nominated by the Permanent Head.

  4. Where the evidence of witnesses employed in remote localities is required, and where arrangements cannot conveniently be made for their attendance in person, or where they would be subjected to undue expense in travelling to appear before the Board of Appeal, the Chairman may appoint a competent person or persons to take the evidence of such witnesses concerning the matter of appeal.

  5. The scale of allowances which may be paid to any witness summoned by the Board in respect of his travelling-expenses and maintenance during his absence from his usual place of residence shall be the same as that allowed under the regulation for travelling-allowances.

  6. The elected members of the Board and the officer appointed as Secretary to the Board may be paid such travelling-allowances as the Permanent Head of the Department thinks fit.

  7. If any officer interviews or communicates with any member of the Board, either directly or indirectly, in reference to any appeal which such officer has made or may be about to make, such appeal shall not be considered by the Board.

  8. A record of all evidence taken on any appeal shall be kept by the Board, and a copy thereof forwarded to the Permanent Head.

  9. The Chairman of the Board shall, as soon as possible after the appeal has been considered, forward the decision of the Board, together with all papers in connection with the appeal, to the Permanent Head, who shall keep them as records of his office.

  10. The Board shall notify the appellant of the result of the appeal.

  11. Where in the opinion of the Permanent Head the decision of the Board in favour of an appellant may properly be applied in the case of any other officer or officers, the Permanent Head may extend to such officer or officers the same advantage as has been granted to the appellant.

  12. If the Board is unanimously of the opinion that an appellant has not established a reasonable case, it may call upon him to pay his travelling or other expenses. If the Board unanimously considers any appeal to be frivolous, it may order the appellant to pay the cost of hearing, and in addition a fine not exceeding £5, and the amount of the fine shall be deducted from the salary or wages payable to the appellant: Provided always that this Regulation shall not be deemed to limit or affect the discretion of the Board to make orders for payment of costs conferred by subsection (2) of section 16 of the said Act.

INEFFICIENCY, MISCONDUCT, ETC.

  1. The following is the procedure to be adopted in any case of inefficiency or misconduct of an officer:

(1.) The officer may be first suspended by his controlling officer and the charge or charges reduced to writing, a copy being supplied to the officer; but suspension is not a necessary preliminary to the action prescribed in the following clauses.

(2.) The officer should be called on, in writing, to admit or deny in writing the charge or charges so made, and be informed that he may add any explanation which he may wish to make.

(3.) The statement of the charge or charges, and the admission, denial, or explanation of the officer, are to be forwarded to the Permanent Head, together with the local controlling officer's report on the case. If the officer admits the charge or charges the Permanent Head may, according to the nature of the offence, reduce such officer to a lower grade or class or to a lower salary, or fine him, or deprive him of leave of absence during such time as the Permanent Head thinks fit, or may dismiss him from the Department. If the officer denies the charge, and the Permanent Head, after considering the case or after investigating the same, is of opinion that the officer is guilty, the Permanent Head may, according to the nature of the



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