(b.) That he be paid from 9th August 1872, inclusive, at the rate to which his old scale, including his increments, would have brought him on the 19th August 1871, had no change been made in it upon that date. My Lords approve. Let a copy of this minute be sent to the heads of the various public departments, in order that they may give effect to the Order in Council in the manner explained above. TREASURY 10 Sept. 1872. 13th September 1872. TREASURY MINUTE. The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have received several applications from writers to be promoted, as vacancies occur, to the establishment of the department in which they have been serving, 13 Sept. 1872. and such applicants have referred my Lords to the reply given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a question put by Mr. Otway in the House of Commons, on the 4th of August, relative to the position of writers employed in public departments. Their Lordships learn from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the statement alluded to in your report was of a much more limited character than the applicants, reference to it assumes. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was not speaking of any general system whereby temporary writers were, as vacancies occur, to be converted into members of the permanent Civil Service, but of a particular class of cases, incident to periods of transition, where the work assigned to writers is discovered to be such as ought to be given to established clerks, and where writers, who have been doing it for some time in a satisfactory manner, are recommended by the heads of departments as fit for the clerkships which are to be created, and are able and willing to pass for admission into them a suitable test examination. In all cases where either the department is included in Schedule A. of the Order in Council of 4th June 1870, or (as must generally be the case) the writer is over the age fixed for admission into the service, the Lords of the Treasury, supposing them to have consented to the increase of establishment, must further be applied to for their consent to the application of Clause VII. of the same Order to such cases. Before giving such consent my Lords would look to see what reason any writer so recommended had had to expect any such advancement, and they would not be disposed to suspend the ordinary rules of admission into the department in favour of any writer who, besides satisfying the conditions stated above, had not also something to plead in the way of expectations either held out to him in express terms, or created and encouraged by the receipt of progressive wages. It would obviously be out of the question for the Government to withdraw from the public any portion of those offices which are now open to competition, to the great promotion of education and improvement of the Civil Service. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was speaking of writers engaged on terms which are no longer continued, and of the means which occasional changes in the organization of departments offer of relieving such men. It is evident that such a statement as this does not warrant individual writers in making application for promotion to vacancies, but is only an intimation to the heads of departments that whenever a writership has to be converted into a clerkship, there is an opportunity of considering the writer who occupies the post if at the time when he began to serve in the department the then existing rules were more in his favour than now. 19 APPENDIX II. REGULATIONS FRAMED BY THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS AND APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY, UNDER THE ORDER IN COUNCIL OF 4TH JUNE 1870, FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS AND FOR THE EXAMINATION OF WRITERS AND MESSENGERS. GENERAL REGULATIONS. 8 April 1872. APPENDIX II. REGULATIONS FRAMED BY THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS GENERAL REGULATIONS* (framed in pursuance of HER MAJESTY'S ORDER IN COUNCIL of the 4th June 1870) respecting OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for SITUATIONS in the CIVIL SERVICE. N.B.-These Regulations are liable to alteration.† 1. Competitive examinations of candidates for various situations or classes of situations in the different public departments will be held from time to time at such places as may be deemed expedient. Before every such examination special regulations will be issued, in which the particular conditions of the competition will be specified. At each examination such a number of candidates will be selected as may be necessary to fill the situations which may have been reported to the Civil Service Commissioners as vacant up to the date at which the result of the examination is declared. 2. These examinations will be open, with such exceptions and under such conditions as may be laid down, to all natural-born subjects of Her Majesty, being of good health and character. 3. Persons actually serving in the army or navy will not be admitted to compete for situations in the Civil Service. 4. Members of the Royal Irish Constabulary of less than 12 years' service will not be admitted to any open competition, until they have resigned their appointments in that force, unless the Inspector General of Constabulary shall otherwise recommend. 5. Any person who after succeeding in any examination held under these regulations may have declined to accept the situation offered him in accordance with their provisions, or who may have accepted such a situation and passed into actual employment in the Civil Service, will be disqualified for admission to any subsequent competition for the same situation or class of situations. 6. Candidates who have served as pupil teachers or schoolmasters in schools under inspection by the Committee of Council on Education, England, or by the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland, will be reported specially to those departments; and such of them as have been trained in normal schools at the public expense will not be qualified to receive appointments in the Civil Service until the consent of those departments, given in conformity with rules sanctioned by the Lords of the Treasury, has been notified to the Civil Service Commissioners. 7. In reckoning age for competition the following allowances will be made, viz., (1) members of the military and naval services (whether commissioned or non-commissioned) may deduct from their actual age any time during which they have served; (2) persons who have served for two full consecutive years (a) in any civil situation to which they were admitted with the certificate of the Civil Service Commissioners, (b) in the Royal Irish Constabulary, or (c) as registered writers in connexion with the Civil Service, may deduct from their actual age any time not exceeding five years which they may have spent in such service. 8. If at any examination two or more situations, whether in the same or in different departments, shall be offered for competition, the successful candidates will be permitted to choose in their order as determined by the competitive examination among the situations offered for competition; provided that they be duly qualified according to the special rules prescribed, under Clause IV. of Her Majesty's Order in Council of 4th June 1870, for the particular situations to which they may severally be assigned. If there be a vacant situation for which no one of the selected candidates is duly qualified, the Civil Service Commissioners may offer it to the candidate highest at the time on the list of selected candidates, subject to his passing a qualifying examination within such period as they may determine; or they may reserve it to be filled by means of a subsequent open competition, or otherwise, as they may see fit, in accordance with the Order in Council of 4th June 1870. Civil Service Commission, Cannon Row, S.W., 8th April 1872. These regulations apply only to situations included in Schedule A. of the Order in Council of 4th June 1870. † Amended regulations were subsequently issued, see p. 48. SPECIAL REGULATIONS (supplementary to the General Regulations of 8th April 1872) respecting OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for CLERKSHIPS (Class I.) in the CIVIL SERVICE. N.B.-These Regulations are liable to alteration. 1. The limits of age for these situations are 18 and 24, and candidates must be of the prescribed age on the first day of the competitive examination. 2. At the competitive examinations exercises will be set in the following subjects only; the maximum of marks for each subject being fixed as follows; viz.: English Composition (including Précis-writing) Language, Literature, and History of Greece Rome REGULATIONS. SCHEME I. 28 Mar. 1873. Mathematics (pure and mixed) Natural Science; that is (1) Chemistry, including Heat; (2) Electricity and Magnetism; (3) Geology and Mineralogy; (4) Zoology; (5) Botany The total (1,000) marks may be obtained by adequate proficiency Moral Sciences; that is, Logic, Mental and Moral Philosophy Political Economy - 1,250 • 1,000 500 375 Candidates will be at liberty to offer themselves for examination in any or all of these subjects. No subjects are obligatory. No candidate will be allowed any marks in respect of any subject of examination unless he shall be considered to possess a competent knowledge of that subject. 3. No candidate can be admitted to the competition who has not previously satisfied the Civil Service Commissioners that he possesses the requisite amount of proficiency in the following subjects: 1. Handwriting. 2. Orthography. 3. Arithmetic (to vulgar and decimal fractions). 4. English composition. With this view, preliminary examinations in these subjects will be held at such times and places as the Commissioners may appoint. Application for permission to attend one of these preliminary examinations must be made in the writing of the candidate, at such times and in such manner as may be fixed by the Commissioners. 4. A fee of 1l. will be required from every candidate attending a preliminary examination, and a further fee of 51. from every candidate who may be admitted to the competition. Civil Service Commission, London, S.W., 28th March 1873. NOTICE. An open competition for clerkships (Class I.) in the Civil Service will be held in London, under the above regulations, on Tuesday the 10th June 1873, and following days. Preliminary examinations will be held in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin on Friday the 25th of April, on Friday the 2nd of May, and on Friday the 23rd of May. Any person wishing to be admitted to one of these preliminary examinations must fill up the annexed form of request for an order for admission, and return it so as to reach the Civil Service Commission ten days at least before the day selected for examination. The order for admission will be posted on the Saturday preceding the day selected for examination, and will contain instructions as to the manner in which the fee is to be paid. Civil Service Commission, 28th March 1873. |