ORDER IN At the Court at Balmoral, the 19th day of August 1871. PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS in pursuance of Her Majesty's Order in Council, 19 Aug. 1871, dated 4th June 1870, Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners therein named have framed, and the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have approved, sundry regulations for testing the qualifications of persons proposed to be appointed to situations or employments in Her Majesty's Civil Establishments, and part of such regulations (viz., the regulations contained in the schedule hereto,) relate to temporary writers, whose services are not confined to any single Civil Establishment, but who represent, to whatever Establishment they may happen for the time being to be attached, the same description of labour: And whereas it is expedient to place at the service of every Department where temporary writers are for the time being needed persons whose wages and conditions of employment are the same: Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth order, and it is hereby ordered as follows, viz.: * I. That no temporary writers be attached henceforth to any Establishment of Her Majesty's Civil Service except in conformity with the annexed regulations, or with such further regulations as the said Civil Service Commissioners may, with the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, issue in execution of their powers in that behalf. II. That a week's notice, which may, at the discretion of the chief of the Department, be extended to a month's notice, be given to all acting writers (except such as fall within the terms of Clause III. of this present Order) who are not willing to continue their service upon the terms of the regulations hereto appended. III. That temporary writers heretofore certificated by the Civil Service Commissioners for service in any particular Department, and temporary writers now borne upon the Register of the Civil Service Commissioners who have been respectively serving in the same Department continuously from a date preceding 4th June 1870,t be excepted from Clause II., and be retained, but only so long as their services are required in the same Department, at the salary or wages, and on the other terms, which they were actually receiving, and were actually subject to, on 4th June 1870,† without any addition thereto, or alteration therein, on account of service following that date. 66 *The regulations here referred to have been superseded by others applicable to temporary copyists" in accordance with the provisions of the Order in Council of 12th February 1876. The new regulations will be found on page 24. A subsequent Order in Council, dated 9th August 1872, provides that the above Order is to be read as if the date 19th August 1871 had been inserted instead of this date. ORDER IN IV. That Departments connected immediately with Courts of COUNCIL. Justice, or with the registration of legal titles or instruments, 19 Aug. 1871. be excepted from this Order, so long as the chiefs of such Departments shall not have signified their consent to be bound by it. (Signed) EDMUND HARRISON. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 9th day of PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Order in Council, dated the 19th day of August 1871, relating to writers in the Civil Service : Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth order, and it is hereby ordered as follows, viz. : That where the words "4th June 1870" occur in the third clause of the said Order, the words "19th August 1871 " be substituted instead thereof. ORDER IN COUNCIL. 9 Aug. 1872. At the Court at Windsor, the 10th day of December 1875. PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS by an Order made by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty in Council, on the 4th day of June 1870, Her Majesty did, by and with the advice of the said Council, order that the Right Honourable Sir Edward Ryan, then First Commissioner under Her Majesty's Orders in Council of the 21st of May 1855 and the 26th of April 1862, and George Webbe Dasent, Esq., Doctor of Civil Law, or such other persons as Her Majesty might from time to time approve in the stead of them, or either of them, should be Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners for testing the qualifications of the persons proposed to be appointed to any situation or employment in any of Her Majesty's Civil Establishments, except as in the first therein recited Order is excepted, and should hold their offices during the pleasure of Her Majesty, the said Sir Edward Ryan continuing to be the First Commissioner, and the said George Webbe Dasent being the Second Commissioner, and should have power, subject to the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to appoint from time to time such assistant examiners and others as might be required to assist them in the performance of the duties thereinafter assigned to them: ORDER IN COUNCIL. 10 Dec. 1875. ORDER IN COUNCIL. 10 Dec. 1875. ORDER IN And whereas, since the date of the said last-mentioned Order, the said Right Honourable Sir Edward Ryan hath departed this life; and whereas it is deemed expedient that the Right Honourable John Somerset Baron Hampton, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, should be appointed First Commissioner in the place and stead of the said Right Honourable Sir Edward Ryan: And whereas the number of Commissioners appointed under the said Orders in Council of 21st May 1855 and 26th April 1862, was three, and it is deemed expedient that this number should be restored, and for this purpose that Theodore Walrond, Esq., Companion of the Bath, Secretary to the said late Sir Edward Ryan and to the said George Webbe Dasent, Esq., as such Commissioners as aforesaid, should be appointed Commissioner together with, and in addition to, the said John Somerset Baron Hampton, and the said George Webbe Dasent, Esq. : Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that the said Right Honourable John Somerset Baron Hampton, the said George Webbe Dasent, Esq., and the said Theodore Walrond, Esq., or such other persons as Her Majesty may from time to time approve in the stead of them, or any of them, shall be Her Majesty's Commissioners for testing, in conformity with the said Order in Council, dated 4th June 1870, or such further Order or Orders as Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, has issued or may issue in that behalf, the qualifications of persons proposed to be appointed to situations or employments in Her Majesty's Civil Establishments, and also for testing, in conformity with regulations to be from time to time issued by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for War, the literary qualifications of candidates for first commissions in the army, and for admission to the Royal Military College at Woolwich, and shall hold their offices during the pleasure of Her Majesty; the said John Somerset Baron Hampton being the First Commissioner, and shall have power, subject to the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to appoint from time to time such assistant examiners and others as may be required to assist them in the performance of their duties. And it is further ordered, that the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury do prepare and submit to Parliament an estimate for the remuneration of the said additional Commissioner. (Signed) C. L. PEEL. At the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of February 1876. PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS the civil administration of Her Majesty's Govern 12 Feb. 1876. ment has, of late years, been greatly extended, And whereas the permanent officers by whom the clerical part of such administration is conducted, although necessarily divided into many departments, have, in a great degree, similar duties to perform: And whereas, in consideration of the premisses, various inquiries have been undertaken, and various measures have been founded upon them, both for the selection and for the classification of the said permanent officers; of which measures the latest is Her Majesty's Order in Council of 4 June 1870, whereby, or by orders and regulations supplementary thereto, the selection of persons for Her Majesty's Civil Service is directed to be made principally by literary competition according to two standards of examination, and the persons so respectively selected are attached either to different offices, or to Higher or Lower Divisions of the same office, according to the examinations passed by them and the duties to be performed: And whereas it appears from certain recent reports made by the Right Honourable Lyon Playfair and others appointed by the Commissioners of the Treasury to be a Commission for inquiring into various questions connected with the organisation of Civil Departments of the State, that further regulations are required for the division of duties in Her Majesty's civil establishments, and for the selection, pay, and promotion of the officers entrusted with such duties: Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: 1. A Lower Division of the Civil Service shall be constituted. It shall consist of men clerks and of boy clerks, engaged to serve in any department of the State to which they may, from time to time, be appointed or transferred. The term " Civil Service" in this paragraph, and the same term, and all equivalent terms, throughout this Order, mean such parts only of the said Service as are comprised in the first and second (excluding the third) of the said Reports. 2. No department throughout Her Majesty's Civil Service shall be permanently increased or regulated afresh, without providing for the introduction of a system whereby such of its duties as are of a suitable character shall be performed by members of the Lower Division. 3. Such situations in Her Majesty's Civil Service as are not suitable to be filled up by members of the Lower Division are excluded from this present Order, and shall, until Her Majesty's further pleasure is declared, be regulated, as now, by the heads of the departments to which they belong, subject to approval by the Commissioners of the Treasury, and conformably to Her Majesty's Orders applicable to them. 4. Promotions shall continue to be made, and salaries to be paid, in the case of all clerks now serving, in like manner as if this Order had never been issued. But no vacancies shall be filled up, nor any new appointments made in any departinent, except ORDER IN COUNCIL. 12 Feb. 1876. COUNCIL. ORDER IN by appointing clerks of the Lower Division, until the Commissioners of the Treasury have. been satisfied that the number of clerks serving in such department with higher salaries than those of the Lower Division is not in excess of the number sufficient to perform superior duties. 12 Feb. 1876. 5. The Civil Service Commissioners shall at fixed intervals or whenever they may, with the previous approval of the Treasury, declare it to be necessary, hold competitive examinations for men clerks of the Lower Division, in the subjects included in the scheme of examination* known as "Regulation II. ;" and for boy clerks of the Lower Division, in a more limited number of subjects. Candidates for men clerkships must be over 17 and under 20 years of age. Candidates for boy clerkships must be over 15 and under 17 years of age. 6. Before any such examination is held, the number of permanent clerkships likely to fall vacant within the next six months shall be estimated by the Civil Service Commissioners. This number shall be increased by 10 per cent., and submitted to the Treasury for approval. When it has been approved, the Civil Service Commissioners shall deduct from it the number of unappointed persons (if any) qualified for appointments by previous examinations of the same kind, including examinations under Clause 11 of this Order; and the remainder shall be the number of persons to be selected at the next ensuing examination. This number shall be published as part of the notice of every such examination. 7. A list of the competitors shall be made out, in the order of merit, up to this published number, if so many are found by the examination to be qualified for appointments in the Civil Service. 8. Each competitor named in a list shall remain thereon until he attains the age (if a man) of 25 years, and (if a boy) of 19 years, unless in the meantime he has been appointed to a situation in some public office. Men on completing their 25th year, and boys on completing the 19th year of their ages respectively, or on receiving appointments, shall be removed from the list. *The subjects of examination under "Regulation II." are as follows; viz. |